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The Midwestern 

Table of Contents 

Why Bryan Should be Elected — George F. Rinehart 17 

Mrs. Eddy and Finance — 1$.ev. Arthur Rees Vosburgh, C. S. B 21 

The Use of Dreaming — Oney Fred Sweet 27 

Visit of the G. F. W. C. Members to Amesbury, Mass 29 

Ebenezer and the Breakfast Food King — Wm. H. Hamb\) 41 

Our Public Utilities 50 

Our Washington Letter b\) Lorraine 58 

Our Library Table by Miranda 64 

Pure Food Department 70 

Household Helps and Hints 74 



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With commendable loyalty to their new 
home town, the Murray Institute has 
adopted thecity's motto, "Des Moines does 
things," and added one of their own, "W« 
do things right in Des Moines." The 
Murray Institute, located at 618 Fourth 
street, has already made its presence felt 
in the community and bids fair to live up 
to its motto. The story of the founding, 
development and management of the 
Murray Cure is a most interesting one 
and is well told in a little book which may 
be had for the asking. Edwin Murray, 
the founder, began this splendid work of 
reclamation of the victims of the drug 
and liquor habits in a private home with 
one patient in the city of St. Paul, Minn., 
afterwards moving to Minneapolis. 

Now, in something over twelve years, 
more than 6,ooo patients have been suc- 
cessfully treated by this method and the 
Murray Institute, the finest and most 
complete of its kind in the world, stands 
in Minneapolis as a testimonial to the 
success of the work. Des Moines is for- 
tunate in securing this institution, which 
will be under the same supervision and 
management as the home establishment. 
Other institutions are to be established 
all over the United States and Canada, 
each one to be known as the Murray In- 
stitute. The next institution to be estab- 
lished will probably be at Denver, Colo. 

Dr. L. W. Sayles, manager of the In- 
stitute, a man who is of the highest rank 
in his profession, has made many friends 
in Des Moines since coming here, where 
he has thus far had charge of the Des 
Moines Murray Institute. Dr. Sayles 
has had a wide experience in the practice 
of medicine and surgery and has had ex- 
perience in hospital management ami 
treatment of the cases of which the 
Murrav Institute make a specialty. Be- 



sides, he is a man of education and cul- 
ture and has a big heart of sympathy 
for those who have become victims of 
the liquor habit. He is enthusiastic in 
regard to his chosen work and is cer- 
tainly a man to win the confidence of 
patients. 

The Murray Cure is recommended by 
physicians everywhere. It builds up the 
system and gives back health and energy 
while destroying the terrible appetite for 
drugs or liquor. There are no after 
effects tof the cure except for good. A 
visit to the institution will be of interest 
to any who wish to be informed. 

Dr. Roderic F. Watts, who is well 
known in Des Moines, has the medical 
supervision of the Des Moines Murray 
Institute. 

The splendid references given in their 
booklet are repeated here : 

James Gray, ex-mayor of Minneapolis ; 
Robert Pratt, ex-mayor of Minneapolis ; 
The Minneapolis Journal ; The Minneap- 
olis Tribune ; Minneapolis Humane So- 
ciety ; Rev. Matt S. Hughes, formerly 
pastor Wesley M. E. Church ; Rev. Fr. 
J. M. Geary, pastor St. Charles Catholic 
Church ; James G. Doyle, ex-superintend- 
ent of police, Minneapolis ; Dr. Henrv 
C. Aldrich, physician ; Dr. Albert J. Mur- 
dock, physician ; Dr. C. M. Ferro, phy- 
sician ; Dr. W. J. Byrnes, physician ; Dr. 
Cora Smith Eaton, physician ; W. I. No- 
lan ; Minneapolis Dry Goods Co.; Ycrxa 
Bros. & Co., grocers ; J. E. Conklin, J. 
F. Conklin & Zonne Co. ; Geo. Christian, 
formerly president Consolidated Milling 
Co. ; William Foster, train dispatcher, C. 
M. & St. P. Ry. ; Twin City Rapid Tran- 
sit Co., Willard J. Hield, general man- 
ager; C. F. Cain, M. D., Elmwood, 
Wis. ; Dr. J. F. Snyder, Hazelton, N. D. 



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Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, 

When our Mother Nature laughs around, 
When even the deep heavens look glad, 
And gladness breathes from the blos- 
soming ground? 
There are notes of joy from the hang-bird 
and wren, 
And the gossip of swallows through all 
the sky; 
The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, 

And the wilding bee hums merrily by. 
The clouds are at play in the azure space, 
And their shadows at play on the bright 
green vale; 
And here they stretch to the frolic chase, 

And here they roll on the easy gale. 
There's a dance of leaves in the aspen 
bower; 
There's a titter of winds in thatbeechen 
tree; 
There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on 
the flower, 
And a laugh from the brook that runs to 
the sea. 

And look at the broad-faced sun, how he 
smiles 
On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, 
On the leaping waters and gay young isles- 
Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away! 

Bryant. 





The Midwestern 



VOLUME III 



SEPTEMBER, 1908 



NUMBER 



rvi+l 




GEORGE F. R1NEHART 



WHY BRYAN SHOULD BE ELECTED 



By George F. Rinehart 



Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is 
a reproach to any people. — Ps. 14:34. 



M 



of righteousness over every form of 
wrong. That accounts for my unfalter- 



T\. BRYAN is an optomist. 
He believes the world is get- 
ting better all the time and it 
is impossible to be around 
him a great deal without shar- 
ing his hopeful view of things. I con- 
fess that I have caughl the in fiction 
and believe firmly in the final triumph 



irg faith in Bryan. 



The situation must be exceptionally 
difficult if Mr. Bryan cannot extract a 
grain of comfort from it. To illustrate 
this habit of his 1 recall that one time 
I was lamenting the fact that Tom 
Watson, whose ability I so much ad- 
mired, permitted his desire for revenge 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



to warp his great intellect and induced 
him to lambast Bryan in each and 
every issue of his magazine. This was 
while Watson was in New York lending 
the weight of his great name to Col. 
Mann of unsavory memory in the pub- 
lication of "Tom Watson's Magazine." 
Mr. Bryan did not share my concern. 
Not a shadow crossed his smiling vis- 
age. He was borrowing no trouble. He 
had no regrets. His reply was eminent- 
ly characteristic of the man. He said 
simply that Watson was doing a good 
work. I asked him how he figured that 
monthly abuse of himself could be ac- 
counted "good work." He replied that 
Watson was there in New York where 
in 1896 Bryanism was called populism 
and that Tom Watson was rapidly -con- 
vincing the average New Yorker that 
Bryan was not a populist. 

Having known Mr. Bryan intimately 
for twelve years and shared his confi- 
dence all of that time I naturally feel 
a closer interest in his welfare than 
those less intimately associated with 
him. That is why some people can 
not understand my devotion to the man 
as well as to his cause. I once said to 
him : "Mr. Bryan, do you realize what 
it will mean were you to assume the 
role of the 'man on horseback' and say 
'come on, boys?'" His reply was 
prompt and decisive : "That is just what 
democracy must try to avoid. Democ- 
racy must make this government so 
good, so just, so equitable that there 
will be no room for the 'man on horse- 
back.' " 

Personally, the great Commoner is 
the cleanest man I have ever known. I 
have heard him on many occasions, 
both as speaker and as listener. I have 
heard stories told in his presence that 
were more or less "off color." The re- 
mainder of the crowd may have 
laughed, but Mr. Bryan never. He 
never told a story that could not have 
been told in a parlor in the presence of 
ladies. 

Not long ago, Mr. Bryan attended a 
reception for men only. He told a 
number of witty stories and had the 
crowd convulsed. A stranger appeared 
in the crowd and entered into the con- 
versation and the general give and take 
of the occasion. By and by there fell 
from, his lips a coarse remark. Instant- 
ly, Mr. Bryan's firm jaw closed like a 



steel trap and his expressive eyes 
snapped fire. The stranger was hustled 
out and several apologies were offered 
Mr. Bryan for the occurrence. "Never 
mind me," said Mr. Bryan, "the remark 
did me no harm ; my concern was for 
the boy waiting to shake my hand. It 
was not the sort of speech for a boy to 
hear." 

However, there is not space in this 
magazine to tell anecdotes of this mar- 
velous man. I must get down to brief 
and concise reasons why he should be 
elected. I have begun with his optimism, 
his hopefulness, his belief in the ulti- 
mate triumph of the right. I have sug- 
gested his personal purity, his whole- 
some cleanliness, his high-mindedness, 
his immaculate ideals. These ought to 
recommend him to every man, woman 
and child that believes in the upward 
trend, the higher view, the struggle for 
the soul's disenthralment. 

As a thinker, Mr. Bryan stands in 
the forefront of the world's statesmen. 
He is the only living man who has the 
ear of every other man. The legis- 
lators of the world love to sit at his feet. 
He talks to them by invitation and they 
listen because of what he has to say. 
He handles no subject which he does not 
illuminate. He says what is timely and 
appropriate, grounded always in those 
principles that are eternal. This is why 
he never makes mistakes. 

As an orator he stands without a 
peer. His style is that of simplicity. 
While the composition of his speeches is 
prosaic, it is effective. He is in no dan- 
ger of being misunderstood. His style 
is direct and forcible. He leads up to , 
his climaxes through a series of undu- 
lations that hold the interest and burst 
at last into the full force of forensic 
finality. On the road to his conclusion 
he is an agreeable entertainer, but when 
he reaches his climax you feel the power 
of the super-man. He is the nc plus ultra 
in the realm of speech. 

Mr. Bryan is as modest as he is great. 
He announces himself "a moon shining 
by reflected light" in comparison with 
Jefferson from whom he has derived his 
inspiration, yet he is a greater man than 
Jefferson. He has been in no aggrega- 
tion of men for twelve years in which 
he was not acknowledged the greatest. 
When in the presence of kings and em- 
perors and czars he was the colossus 



WHY BRYAN SHOULD BE ELECTED 



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and they the pigmies. Though the hand 
oi nearly every delegate in the demo- 
cratic national convention in 1904 was 
against him he went out of that conven- 
tion as he entered it, far and away the 
greatest democrat of them all. 

Nature did much for him. He has a 
magnificent presence. He looks dis- 
tinguished. In a crowd he could not 
be other than the cynosure of all eyes. 
Nature has set her mark upon him so 
that the whole world may read — "This 
is the man." He has assisted nature 
materially in his development. He has 
been a hard student. He has learned 
his lessons well. In the choice of a life 
partner he was particularly fortunate. 
His wife is a queen in the larger sense 
of that word. The white house has 
never contained her superior if it has 
held her equal. She is withal the most 
learned and cultured matron we have 
ever known. We have observed her in 
her home as a sacrificing daughter, a 
sympathetic and helpful wife and a 
proud and accomplished mother. 

Mr. Bryan is to-day the greatest 
moral force in this republic, he is a 
just man and he believes that justice will 
do more toward civilizing the human 
race than powder and ball. He has 
more confidence in righteousness than 
he has in armies and navies, and yet he 
believes in war as a last resort when 
human rights are at stake and peaceful 
methods fail. He is not omy a teach- 
er by precept, but he is a teacher by ex- 
ample. He asks no man to be better 
than he can, but he expects every man 
to render to society the best returns of 
which he is capable, and he, himself, sets 
an example it would be well to follow. 

The election of Mr. Bryan is demand- 
ed by every state in this Union. Where- 
ever men are endowed with sympathy; 
wherever the weak are oppressed ; 
wherever men toil without just recom- 
pense; wherever business is suffering 
the unjust competition of the trust ; 
wherever legitimate trade is at the 
mercy of predatory wealth ; wherever 
good impulses dominate .the conduct of 
men, there is a demand for the election 
of William Jennings Bryan. 

This fact was apparent at the recent 
great national convention of the demo- 
cratic party at Denver. Forty-five of 
the fifty standards represented in that 
convention, from every land over which 



the flag floats, flocked around the stan- 
dard of Nebraska that had offered to 
the nation the services of her most dis- 
tinguished adopted son. It was the 
greatest gathering of representative 
men in the entire history of the party. 
It is true the Nebraskan had nothing to 
give them. It is true he had no big 
stick to compel the support of the dele- 
gates. It is true he had no federal 
office holders to make a show of force 
and enthusiasm. It is true he had no 
administration behind him to threaten 
and intimidate, but he swayed that con- 
vention from his home at Lincoln and 
the two demonstrations of over one 
hour each were the vocal expressions of 
the love and devotion and fidelity of the 
common people who had "heard him 
gladly." 

What is the use to talk of another 
man for president? In all that is good 
America deserves the best. She ought 
to show to the world that she appre- 
ciates a great man when she has one. 
She ought to recognize merit when it 
is so palpably apparent. She now has a 
chance to recognize her greatest pro- 
duction and the world is looking on to 
see if she will be equal to the emer- 
gency. 

Is not the fact that every state want- 
ed Bryan nominated sufficient to justi- 
fy his election? Is not the fact that 
no state wanted Taft nominated suffi- 
cient to justify his defeat? Do the 
people want a man who stands upon his 
own merit or do they want an echo of 
another? Have we reached the stage of 
degeneracy where we, a sovereign peo- 
ple, will permit a president to name his 
successor or have we retained enough 
vitality to assert our right of free 
choice? These questions are big with 
interest and demand an answer in this 
campaign. 

Of course, Mr. Bryan can not please 
everybody. Lincoln had bitter enemies. 
Washington was abused by foes. Christ 
was crucified. No man who does some- 
thing for his fellows can expect to es- 
cape the censure of the jealous and cor- 
rupt in heart. Bryan lias been the vic- 
tim of more abuse than any man now 
living, and paradoxical as it may seem, 
he is the most beloved. He has a world 
grasp on affairs of state, a clearly de- 
fined policy on all problems of discre- 
tion, and if the American people do not 



20 



THE MIDWESTERN 



elect him to the office of president the 
loss will be irreparable. It will not be 
his loss, but theirs. Bryan has survived 
two defeats and is greater to-day be- 
cause of them. He can survive another 
or a dozen; but it is doubtful whether 
the republic can fare as well. 

When the hot blast of prejudice dries 
up the brain of fts victim an oasis be- 
comes a desert. Nothing can grow in 
territory so afflicted. Prejudice defeat- 
ed Bryan before, will it do so again? It 
is the fate of good men to be misunder- 
stood. Bad men are sometimes forgiv- 
en, but good men pay the penalty. This 
is wrong, but it is true. Mr. Bryan has 
paid the penalty of goodness. Because 
he was true as the needle to the pole he 
was humiliated. Because he was faith- 
ful to the cause of the people he was 
defeated. Because he would do some- 
thing for his fellow man he was denied 



the opportunity. Because he stands 
four squares to all the winds that blow 
he is accused of shifting. Because he 
is inflexible as fate he •'- called a radical. 
Because he is absolutely just he is 
branded as dangerous. 

The facts are that Mr. Bryan has in 
him the material for the greatest presi- 
dent this nation has ever seen. He has 
the capacity for illuminating the history 
of this country as no other man has 
ever illuminated it. His danger lies in 
his goodness and his greatness. He is 
therefore made the shining mark for 
the corrupt and dangerous and the en- 
vy of the small and mean. God grant 
that the better thought, the better con- 
science, the better impulses of our peo- 
ple may triumph in the election soon to 
come and that Bryan shall be exalted 
and the nation glorified. 



IN HIM WE LIVE 



Fallen, you say? Not so! He cannot 
fall 

Who knows, in growing measure, God 
is All ! 

Onward and upward do his footsteps 
tend, 

Swiftly nor slowly can they downward 
wend ; 

He can know neither accident nor harm, 

Upheld for aye by God's unfailing arm ; 

In freedom all undreamed by mortal 
sense, 

He walks upright in Truth's omnipo- 
tence ! 

Gone, do you say of him ? He is in God ! 
Beyond that bound his feet have never 

trod; 
And from you he can ne'er be far away, 
Since you, too, are in God, and cannot 

stray ! 
You see him not, but think not you are 

blind, 



For out of sight is out of mortal mind! 
To Love omniscient he is ever near, 
Nor far from you can be, since Love is 
here! 

Dead, think you? Do you dream that 
mortal breath 

Is life? That failing it can e'er mean 
death? 

He who inhales Love's fragrant atmos- 
phere 

Knows no oppression and is far from 
fear. 

Through Truth's almighty power, victor 
is he ; 

With Love omniscient he does know and 
see 

That evermore death's stifling veil is rent, 

And man is one with Life omnipotent. 

— Mary I. Mesechre 
In Christian Science Sentinel. 




Mrs. Eddy Addressing 8000 Christian Scientists Assembled on the Grounds 
of Her Former Home in Concord, New Hampshire, June, 1903 



MRS. EDDY AND FINANCE 

By Rev. Arthur Rees Vosburgh, C. S. B. 



Rev. Arthur R. VoibUTgh, <\ S. B. t of 

bylerian ministry and graduated at Auburn 
licensed to preach by Lyons Presbytery in 
the PreBbyterian Church at North Bergen, 
experienced the healing efheary of Christian 
learnings for some lime, so lie finally decide 
in the movement . Me pftfttfflfl a practitioner 
Church of Christ, S.-i.-nl isi, there, and in 1 
tureship, 

NO GREAT character is ever 
measured aright by his own 
generation, In the distance 
and perspective that is given to 

after-limes there comes the op- 
portunity of a truer measurement, and 



Rochester, N. Y„ was educated for the Pres- 
Theologieal Seminary in 1892. He was 

1891, and called to DeoOflEti the pastor of 

Cenesee Presbytery, iti 1 H '.»"_:. Rut he had 
Science, and had been a student of its 

d to devote his time wholly to active work 
in Rochester, was First Reader in Second 

99 bee nine a member of the Board of Lec- 



tlie men of the later day look hack with 
wonder at the detractors of the former 
time, and say, "If we had been in the 
days of our fathers, we would not have 
been partakers with them in the blood 
<>l* the prophets." Then each succeed- 



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Chestnut Hill, Brooklyn,eMass. Home of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy 



ing generation comes and goes, stones 
its own prophets, and builds the monu- 
ments of those who have gone before. 
There are always some who recognize 
the crowned one when he comes, always 
some who have ears to hear and eyes to 
see when the seer declares his vision, or 
the poet sings his song; but through 
all the years these have almost invari- 
ably been the minorities, and to the 
men of another generation comes the 
vision of the glory that its own genera- 
tion could so little see. 

The great reason — or unreason — of 
this seems to be that anyone who ac- 
complishes anything worth while is al- 
ways a disturber of the peace ; and the 
disturbance of his work is always pro- 
portioned to its value. It has been said 
that "nothing is so painful as a new- 
idea ;" and the newer, more radical, and 
far-reaching the idea the more pro- 
nounced the disturbance that must come 
as it displaces the more imnerfect ideals 
cf the old. 

Enough time has gone by, and 
enough of definite result has appeared 
that the world has allotted to the Chris- 
tian Science Leader, Mrs. Eddy, a meed 
of greatness. However, men may re- 
gard her work, or judge or misjudge 
her motives, there is no question as to 
her being one of the most important fig- 



ures in the world's thought to-day. 

This article is not written with the 
purpose of dealing at all with what 
Mrs. Eddy has taught, or with the mer- 
its of her work. It is its purpose to 
look simply at one line of the history 
of this remarkable woman, a line which 
has furnished the occasion of carping 
and cruel criticism, and which even to 
kindly and broadminded ones, who are 
not thoroughly informed, may seem 
open to criticism. The question has 
been raised: Is Mrs. Eddy a mercenary 
woman ? Or, if this be putting it a lit- 
tle brusquely and bluntly, is there, run- 
ning through all Mrs. Eddy's work, 
however high its intention, a shrewd, 
moneymaking motive? This criticism 
of Mrs. Eddy is so frequently met tint 
every thoughtful, fair-minded person 
will be glad to know what conclusion 
the facts really warrant, and this paper 
is written, not to give Mrs. Eddy a de- 
fense v which she does not need, but to 
give the one who desires to know, a 
knowledge by which a true judgment 
may be reached. 

Mrs. Eddy has shown clear capability 
in managing her own temporal affairs, 
as she has in directing the interests of 
her church. But, judging Mrs. Eddy 
by all the standards by which the 
actions of men are tested, a careful 




MRS EDDV AND FINANCE 



23 



survey of the facts of her life-history 
can leave only the conviction that on 
the financial side of her work, as surely 
and purely as on its strictly ideal side, 
her entire motive has been an absorbed 
devotion to the cause of Christian Sci- 
ence ; that the steps taken that have 
brought financial returns, have been 
taken in the interests of this work, and 
not for the sake of the money they 
would bring. 

Mrs. Eddy's early work was done in 
poverty and privation. For years she 
healed the sick gratuitously and re- 
ceived but slight returns from a few 
students taught. When Mrs. Eddy first 
published her book, Science and Health, 
there was nothing in an external way 
to encourage, and everything to dis- 
courage, its publication. The early edi- 
tions were a trouble and expense that 
more than offset their revenue. There 
was then little demand for the book, and 
critics who deigned to notice it said it 
would ne\er be read. But beyond all 
this — and here is the really salient 
point — those who wished to undertake 
to exploit the work of Christian Science 
for what there was in it, urged against 
the publication of the text-book, on the 
ground that it would be more profitable 
to monopolize its teachings, and not 
disseminate them to the world. Now it 
is notorious that a mercenary view is a 
narrow, short-sighted view ; and if the 
leader of Christian Science had at this 
time been in quest of the dollar, she 
would certainly have followed the .coun- 
sel that said keep this in your own 
hands and make it a monopoly — do not 
give it to the world. The book has now 
a wide circulation and large sales; but 
from any worldly point of view — and a 
mercenary motive always gives this 
point of view — this could not then be 
foreseen. 

In [88l, Mrs. Eddy opened the Mass- 
achusetts Metaphysical College for stu- 
dents. The tuition fee was a generous 
one, three hundred dollars for a course 
lasting barely three weeks. This seems 
a large sum if the estimate is simply an 
ordinary computation of the amount of 
time involved; but those who received 
this leaching were more, vastly more, 
tbatl satisfied as to the value received. 
The real point involved, however, is tin- 




THE MIDWESTERN 




Bas-relief of Mrs. Eddy by William Frederick Pope 

— what other guarantee could well be After about eight years' work, the 

given, that the students who sought in- College was closed, and at a time when, 

struction in Christian Science were as Mrs. Eddy has said, its prosperity 

earnest seekers, rather than curious in- was "overwhelming." Now it is certain 

quirers and experimenters? that the desire for money is a growing 




New Christian Science Publishing House in Boston 



MRS. EDDY AND FINANCK 



25 




The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass. 



appetite — it increases by what it feeds 
on. But when the applications for en- 
trance to the College were multiplying, 
and the demand was for Mrs. Eddy's 
personal instruction ; when a golden 
harvest of financial returns was ready 
to be poured at her feet, she closed the 
College, and withdrew entirely from 
public work, except an occasional pub- 
lic appearance. From our knowledge 
of the way in which the human mind 
and its motives have always worked, it 
is inconceivable that one whose motive 
was mercenary would have taken this 
step. 

As the years have gone by, and the 
work of Christian Science has grown, 
the receipts from Mrs. Eddy's book 
have correspondingly increased, and she 
has become a woman of moderate 
wealth, as standards of wealth are tak- 
en now. Tier gifts to various enterpris- 
es connected with the cause of Chris- 
tian Science have been large, while she 
has been a constant donor to worthy 
objects of Christian and philanthropic 

effort in Other directions, of which little 



has been known, outside of the ranks of 
the recipients. And now, in very re- 
cent months, has come another gift, 
that of one million dollars to found an 
institution to aid in extending the edu- 
cational work of Christian Science by 
assisting those who are needy and 
worthy, in gaining its teachings. Mrs. 
Eddy has had this project in mind for 
years, and has been looking forward to 
the time when she would have the 
means fitly to endow it. In doing this 
she gives away all her accummulations, 
except her real estate, which consists of 
her home at Chestnut I Till and the 
former home at Concord. 

Now all this is history, and absolute- 
ly incompatible with any supposition of 
avarice on the part of the leader of 
Christian Science. To repeat what we 
have noted before, it is notorious that 
avarice grows by what it feeds on ; and 
one who for years has made the quest 
cf the dollar the leading, or even a lead- 
ins; aim, would never, in the ripeness of 
years that has come to Mrs. Eddy, give 
away her all. 



26 




First Church of Christ Scientist, Concord, N. H. 
Gift of Mary Baker G. Eddy 



Christian Scientists are not greatly 
concerned as to their Leader's reputa- 
tion, nor as to the effects of any such 
charge as that of an unworthy and 
avaricious motive. Christian Scientists 
know, and the world is rapidly coming 
to know, that Mrs. Eddy's whole career 
has been one of unselfish devotion to 
the cause of Christian Science ; that she 
has spared no effort, shrunk from no 
sacrifice, faltered at no obstacle, in this 
which she has Felt to be her service to 
God and humanity. The world is to- 
day rendering to Christian Science an 
acknowledgment that it is a movement 
that has wrought and is working might- 
ily for good, and that the spirit and ef- 
fort of Christian Scientists is inspired 
by good. But the entire growth, and 
the work of Christian Science, as it ex- 



ists to-day, is the outcome of Mrs. Ed- 
dy's teachings and efforts, and vet falls 
far below the standard she exhorts of 
her followers. No such work could 
have been established by one whose mo- 
tives were selfish or insincere. 

And now there is another side to all 
this. Mrs. Eddy has been rendering a 
supreme service to humanity in estab- 
lishing and enforcing the recognition 
that, in Jesus' words, "the laborer is 
worthy of his hire," as an essential of 
Christian teaching. No one can or will 
question but that all service, all effort, 
by which any man serves his fellowmen, 
should be duly recompensed. And in a 
general way it is recognized that the 
higher the order of service, the greater 
should be the recompense. But at the 
point of the highest service of all. the 



THE USE OF DREAMING 



27 



ministration of noble thoughts and 
ideals, the world has a long, black rec- 
ord of letting its choicest lights spend 
their years in unrequited toil, and the 
recognition of the worth of what the 
philosopher, the artist, the poet, the 
prophet, has wrought, is given by the 
generations that follow. Mrs. Eddy has 
believed in her teachings and in her 
work ; and she has consistently insisted 
that a respectable price should be paid 
for her books, and for the services of 
Christian Scientists. In all this she has 
been establishing the precedent and in- 
culcating the doctrine which, honestly 



applied, will make it impossible for the 
world's benefactors to be allowed to 
face poverty and neglect. And so, by 
her success, she has brought nearer the 
day when to every one who serves, from 
the lowest to the loftiest order of 
service, from the one who digs ditches 
because the world needs ditches to the 
one who brings some great message of 
joy and beauty, to each one his fellow- 
man shall render the recompense of a 
generous wage, not grudginely nor of 
necessity, but as a joyous human privi- 
lege. 



THE USE OF DREAMING 



By Oney Fred Sweet 



r HAT'S the use of dream- 
ing 1 Lots of use. Don't 
be afraid of becoming im- 
practicable because your 
thoughts have a tendency 
to soar among the clouds. 
Dreaming is as essential 
to sordid success as it is to poetic hap- 
piness. Everybody should dream. When 
a man's dreams begin to get closer to 
the earth, his happiness begins to go 
out accordingly. 

Youth is the best dreamer. It loves 
to lie out in the shade on a summer day 
and rest its gaze on the far-off sky of 
blue. Youth's castles in Spain are of 
gorgeous architecture. Youth 's fancies 
are fostered beneath moonlight and 
'mid flowered paths of woodland dells. 
They are frosted by cold winds and 
mocked by the grey skies of autumn 
We meet men often who are living in 
the autumn season. Their dreams have 
gone out. Fancy refuses to weave her 



magic skeins for them and they are left 
cross and crabbed. 

Then there are men no older in years, 
no more favored by fortune, who are 
still dreaming. We catch them alone in 
their unconsciousness and a smile is on 
their face. They are just dreaming 
Life at close range may be drear in- 
deed, but afar off on the hills the sun 
is shining and there lies an Eldorado of 
happiness and success. 

Mostly what we have we one day 
dreamed of having. What we are 
dreaming for today will in some meas- 
ure become ours. All men who have 
ever accomplished anything have been 
dreamers. They closed their eyes and 
fancied new inventions, new books, 
new worlds to discover. 

It is not a crime to dream, as some 
would have us believe. Remove not one 
castle which you have in Spain. Let 
not go down so much as one ship which 
you have out at sea. 

There's lots of use in dreaming. 




JOHN G WH1TTIER 
"The Poet of Freedom ." Born Dec I 7, 1807- Died Oct 7, 1892. 




Home of the "Whittier Home Association" 




J. ELMER BRIERLY 
Representing Amesbury District Boston Globe and Newburyport News, Amesbury, Mass. 



VISIT OF THE G. F. W. C. MEMBERS TO 
AMESBURY, MASS., IN JUNE, 1908 



Among the many invitations extended 
to the members of the General Federa- 
tion of Women's Clubs at their recent 
Boston session, was one from the Whit- 
tier Home Association of Amesbury, 
Mass. The village of Amesbury is on a 
branch of the Boston and Maine road, 
about forty miles north of Boston. The 
ride either by rail or auto is one of the 
most beautiful in all New England, along 
the drive passing through historic old 
places, the homes of the nation's heroes 
and over ground hallowed by associations 
with the earliest periods of our history. 
Amesbury itself is both quaint and beau- 



tiful, especially to western eyes, with its 
hills and rivers, beautiful homes and 
winding streets. Known all over the 
world as the birth place of the great 
Whittier, it is a constant place of interest 
to all who visit New England. 

One hundred and thirty of the G. F. 
W. C. delegates accepted the invita- 
tion of the Whittier Home Association. 
This association was formed in 1898, 
consisting of seventy-five women, with 
an unlimited associate membership (now 
having about 200 associate members) 
for the purpose of restoring the Whit- 
tier home in Friend street to its condi- 




THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. ANDREW FIELDING 
1st Vice-President of Whittier Home Association 



MRS. EMILY B. SMITH 

President of the Whittier Home Association 
of Amesbury, Mass. 



tion in the poet's life time. The house 
was leased of Mrs. S. G. Pickard, Whit- 
tier's niece, who owned it, and as far as 
possible it was restored and opened to 
the visitors who go to Amesbury at 



all times of the year. Mrs. Emily B. 
Smith has been the president of the 
association from the beginning and she 
lived in the house She was a personal 
friend of Whittier, a charming, cultured 
woman, who has the work and the in- 
terests of the society at heart and who 
has been most successful in leading the 
work. 













MRS. MARIANA MASON 
2nd Vice-President of Whittier Home Association 



MISS DELL DOLBIER 
Auditor of the Whittier Home Association 



VISIT TO WHITTIER HOME ASSOCIATION 




31 



MRS. JOHN H. HOWARTH 
Corresponding Secretary of Whittier Home Assn. 



In 1901 a plan was formulated for 
raising funds with which to erect in 
Amesbury a fitting memorial to the great 
poet, and this work is now the central 
motive of the organization. Six thousand 
dollars have been raised. In 1903 the 
Whittier home in Friend street, the 
association renting a house until the 
purchase in 1907 of the present house, 
where a permanent home for the asso- 
ciation has been established in an an- 
cient house known as the Colby-Wells 
house, looking out on Whittier's gar- 
den. 

With this house and its inmates the 
Whittier family had been closely con- 
nected. It contains now many articles 
of interest connected with Mr. Whittier, 
and visitors are always welcome. Here 
the Association carries on its work for the 
statue, for charity, for the peace niove- 





MRS. R. E. BRIGGS, Clerk of the Whitt.er Home Association 



32 



THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. MARY E. McAYEAL 
Associate Member of the Whittier Home Association Who Assisted in Receiving 



ment, works for arts and crafts, has many 
social gatherings, its most notable occa- 
sion in 1907 being; its part in the celebra- 
tion of the Whittier Centennial. 

The Association is a member of the 
State Federation of Women's Clubs, and 
in 1903 was incorporated, "To erect in 
some public place in Amesburv a per- 
manent memorial in bronze, and stone or 
marble for which contributions may be 
solicited, to celebrate suitably the poet's 
birthday, and to promote any movement 
of philanthropy, education and reform, 
which such a Memorial Association may 
properly assist." 



The number of active members is sev- 
enty-five, with over two hundred asso- 
ciate members, who are also life mem- 
bers, and whose membership fee of $5.00, 
which entails no obligations, is always 
added to the statue fund. The officers of 
the Association are : 

President, Mrs. Emily B. Smith. 

Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Abby J. Fielden, 
Mrs. John Hume, Mrs. Marianna Mason, 
Mrs. W. W. Hawkes. 



Secretary, Mrs. Richard E. Briggs. 






Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. John 
H. Howarth. 



VISIT TO WHITTIER HOME ASSOCIATION 



33 



Treasurer, Miss Emma C. Woolfenden, 
68 Market street. 

Auditor. Miss Dell Dolbier. 

On the occasion of the visit i >f the fed- 
eration delegates it was a great pleasure 
to Iowa women in particular to he greeted 
at the head of the receiving line by a 
former Iowa woman whose home is now 
in Amesburv, Mrs. Mary E. MeAyeal. 
Her husband. Dr. Robert A. MeAyeal, 
was for many years a minister in Iowa 
and chaplain, during the war, of the 
33d Iowa Vol., and one of the men of 
power and influence who helped lay the 
foundations for prosperity in the state 
o! Iowa. Mrs. MeAyeal is an associate 
member of the club and was invited 
by the president, Mrs. Smith, to 
introduce the visitors. Another Iowa 
woman was Mrs. McAyeal's daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Richard E. Briggs, who 
is secretary of the association and one 
of its most active members. As chair- 
man of the house committee Mrs. Briggs 
was instrumental in furnishing the house 
in the exquisite taste which is the sub- 
ject of comment by all who visit there. 
Mrs. MeAyeal and Mrs. Britrsrs have sev- 




MR. WILLIAM DENHURST 

Chef for Federation of Womens Clubs, June 25th. 




THE RECEIVING COMMITTEE OF THE WHI ITIER HOME ASSOCIATION 

From left to light Mis. Maiy E. MeAyeal, Mrs. Emily B. Smith, president of the Whittier Home 
Association, Miss May S. Allen, president of the Whittier Club, Mrs. Geo. W. Osgood, Mrs. Andiew H. 
Fielden, Miss Dell Dolbier, Mrs. John H. Howarth, Mrs. James Hume, Mrs. A. N. I'arry, Mrs. Frank 
S. Merrill, Mrs. Thomas M. Batchelder, Miss Helen P. Sanborn, Mrs. William A. Murphy, Mrs. Leonard 
Brown. 




Lunch Under the Trees in the Garden of the Whittier Home Association 



eral times visited Des Moines, being the 
mother and sister of Mrs. Ogilvie, editor 
of The Midwestern. Indeed the 
Iowa women declare their visit to 
Amesbury the most delightful of 
all their trips, and the Amesbury 
women not to be surpassed as hostesses. 
A great interest was aroused in behalf 






of the work of the Whittier Home Asso- 
ciation and this will surely redound to the 
advantage of the association in every 
way. 

Guests were received by Mrs. Mary E. 
McAyeal, Mrs. Emily B. Smith, presi- 
dent; Miss May S. Allen, Whittier Club; 
Mrs. Geo. W. Osgood, Mrs. Andrew H. 










Interior of Living Room of the Whittier Home Association 




Garden Room in Whittier's Home Containing the Desk Upon Which the Poem 
"Eternal Goodness" and Many Other of His Later Poems Were Written 




Whittier's Home in Amesbury, Mass. 



36 



THE MIDWESTERN 







Interior of Rocky Hill Meeting House, Amesbuiy, Mass., Erected in 1785 
One of the places of interest visited by the ladies of the Federation 



Fielden, Miss Dell Dolbier, Mrs. John 
H. Howarth, Mrs. James Hume, Mrs. A. 
N. Parry, Mrs. Frank S. Merrill, Mrs. 
Thomas M. Batchelder, Mrs. Helen T. 
Sanborn, Mrs. William A. Murphy, Mrs. 
Leonard Brown. 

The reports of Mr. J. E. Brierly, edi- 
tor of the Amesbury district department 
of the Boston Globe and the Newbury- 
port Daily News, were the finest and best 



written reports that have been seen in 
any of the eastern papers, concerning the 
doings of the federation delegates. Mr. 
Brierly is a newspaper man of long ex- 
perience and of exceptional ability. Mrs. 
Brierly assisted in the garden fete, 
where a luncheon was served at 
small tabljs under the trees. A 
typical New England menu was served. 
A trip was made to Whittier's 







Whittier's Grave Marked by the Tallest Stone in the Row 

Inscription on front of the stone — John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 

On rear of stone — "Here Whittier Lies" O. W. Holmes 



VISIT TO WHITTJKk HOME ASSOCIATION 



37 




BARD BERRY 

Son'of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Berry of Panama, Iowa 



grave where Mrs. E. A. Childs and 
Miss Alice Brown, the latter a Quaker 
friend of Whittier's, were stationed and 
explained to guests. The Macy-Colby 
house, recently purchased by the Daugh- 
ter of the Revolution, was another point 
of interest, as was the Rocky Hill meet- 
ing house. 



The day in Amesbury, with its historic 
association, its delightful hospitality and 
the cordial greetings of the members of 
the Whittier Home Association will be 
long and happily remembered by all who 
were so fortunate as to be their guests 
on that day in June, 1908. 



IN MEMORY OF SEN. WM. B. ALLISON 



* 



■J5 2 

i~ C 



A TRIBUTE 



By Sidney A. Foster 



3 Allison ! No name in Iowa, in all its 
r history, has been made so familiar to 
the Iowa household ! No name has car- 
ried with it so great a significance of 
honor! No name has touched the heart 
with equal love ! No name has brought 
so much state pride! Pure in his per- 
sonal life ; upright in fullest measure of 
integrity to his state ; conscious of all 
this power, he never played upon the af- 
fections of the people nor coquetted with 
freakish isms to intensify his popularity 
with any class. 

He was a student though not a schol- 
ar; he was a teacher but never a peda- 
gogue! He was industrious, but never 
impatient ; he was wise in craft, but nev- 
er designing ; he was broad in his judg- 
ment of all men and never vindictive ; 
though the daggers of once trusted 
friends were hurled with vengeful 
strength to strike down his public life 
and mar his public honor, he never re- 
turned in like ; but he loved and trusted 
the people of Iowa, and the people of 
Iowa knew the man, and victory was 
Allison ! 

The history of this country from 1862 
to August, 1908, will be many times 
written, and the lives of her great men 
reviewed ; and startling sentences in 
eulogy, of oratory and heroism will adorn 
the prized pages that record the progress 
of a nation's developed greatness ; but in 
the milder terms of historic comment in 
the woof and warp of our national fabric 
will be observed the poise of substantial 
and enduring enconiums to the unstinted 
devotion and unselfish labor of Allison. 
The world applauds the visible super- 
structure of the great Congressional Li- 
brary building ; the thoughtful truly es- 



timate the tenure of its architectural 
beauty and safety by the strength of the 
foundation on which it stands. The cav- 
erns of the Chamber absorb the echoes 
of oratory, but the Committee Room cre- 
ates the progress of National Greatness. 
Allison was in the Committee Room the 
center of counsel, the open map of intri- 
cate, interwoven ways and means to the 
national credit and to international re- 
spect. As Chairman of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the United States 
Senate, a quarter of a century, he headed 
appropriations of more than Twenty Bil- 
lions of Dollars (a sum vastly beyond 
the comprehension of any human mind) 
and no charge was ever sustained, or 
even the shadow of a charge made by 
responsible sources, that he was ever en- 
riched one penny by the use of such tre- 
mendous power. Temptations must have 
assailed him ; opportunity was open to 
him in a thousand ways ; yet he left the 
service of his country enriched by the 
nobility of his manhood, an honest public 
servant! Such a life is golden in its in- 
fluence and the sweet and silent forces 
of the power he exercised ; the love he 
had for his fcllowmen ; the happiness he 
enjoyed to bestow upon his world of 
great and noble purposes, was intensi- 
fied by the results to those he was given 
opportunity to servo. 

He loved young men ! It was my good 
fortune to once hear him give some good 
advice to a young man for whom he had 
succeeded in getting an appointment. 
The young man came to thank him, and 
after doing so, asked the kindly hearted 
Allison if there was anything he could 
do for him. The Senator extended his 
hand and substantially in these words. 



40 



THE MIDWESTERN 



said: "Yes, my boy, you can do much 
for me by doing well for yourself. Be 
industrious and be honest. It is unnec- 
essary for me to ask you to never go in- 
to a saloon, for no self-respecting young 
man ever goes into a saloon." 

This is another side of Allison's life 
that few of the people understood; only 
his intimates knew that he was temper- 
ate in all his habits ; early to bed ; an 
early riser; a plain liver; a lover of the 
simple life. 

In his politics he was always a Repub- 
lican. He believed in the party for he 
was present at its birth and a charter 
member in Iowa. He ws constant to 
its nominations and its platforms to the 
closing of his career by the hand of 
death. 



His wisdom as a diplomat was a char- 
acteristic and in Iowa as a member of his 
party he stood between fanatic leaders 
and rebellious opponents, and benefited 
both by producing party harmony. In 
his Senatorial capacity he stood between 
an exasperated chief executive and a 
belligerent and perverse element in the 
party ; and wisely united the warring 
giants into a harmonious organization 
for the public good. The public service 
benefited was his ambition ; a great 
country wisely and honestly governed 
his inspiration ; and to live to participate 
in the fact that this nation had became 
the greatest, strongest, most powerful 
world country in character as in proper- 
tv. was a personal achievement that ful- 
filled the ambitions of his life. 




The Modern Veranda, J.ist Beginning t'i be Appreciated in Northern States 






EBENEZER AND THE BREAKFAST 
FOOD KING 



Wm. H. Hamby 



EBENEZER CRAM, of Buckeye 
Bridge, Missouri, found it diffi- 
cult to reach the august pres- 
ence of the breakfast food king. 
Cyrus P. Brittlebats had de- 
signed his magnificent New York office 
especially to keep people out. But as 
Ebenezer had always made it his policy 
when he started anywhere to get there 
"in spite of the devil and high water," 
he got there after four days of unflagging 
zeal in the effort. 

Although Cyrus P's. throne rested on 
the esthetic "Airy Comestible Cero 
Crisps," with success he had grown fat 
and insolent, and was easily bored. Be- 
cause he had climbed to the top of the 
business ladder he imagined he had a 
mortgage on the rungs ; and since his 
business was the most prosperous in that 
part of the country, he concluded that 
an idea which did not originate with him, 
or which he had not ordered, or at least 
discovered, was not worth as much as a 
yellow primrose on a river's brink. 

As Ebenezer entered he sized him up 
with one comprehensive glance — heavy 
shoes, ready-made suit, Christmas-gift 
neck tie, slouch hat and all. Ebenezer 
took off his hat and ran his fingers 
through the promiscuous growth of hair 
that adorned his tall peaked head like a 
bunch of dry broom grass, turned his 
mild blue eyes upon the great man, and 
waited for an opening. 

"Well?" snapped the king. 

"I want a job," announced Ebenezer. 

Brittlebats started to ring for some- 
body to throw the fellow out, then a 
flicker of amusement crossed his porky 
cheeks. 

"President of the company, eh ?" he 
asked, winking at himself. 

"Any old job," said Ebenezer, "just so 
there is a salary attached." 

"I suppose you know all about the 



manufacture of breakfast foods?" The 
king was beginning to enjoy himself. 
This yahoo from the wilds of the prov- 
inces west of the Mississippi was a dis- 
tinct find. 

"No," replied Ebenezer with frank 
modesty. 

"Long successful experience as super- 
intendent of men ?" 

"Nary a bit." 

"Been traveling for several years? 
Fine salesman, I suppose?" 

"Never sold a darn thing in my life 
except a jews-harp." 

"Well, then, Mr. ah, — what is the 
name? Cram? Well, Mr. Clam, what 
kind of a position do you want with us, 
and what wages will you require?" 

"It's like this, Mr. ah,— Mr. Battleax. 
I've got an idea, a brand, splinter new 
idea for the sale of breakfast foods ; and 
I'm willing to give your concern the ben- 
efit of it, if you will give me a five year's 
job at two hundred a month." 

The fat king laughed as merrily as did 
Old King Cole. "Why, Mr. Clam, we've 
got ideas to burn. We employ the brain- 
iest ad men in the United States. We've 
not only got the ideas, but we have the 
business and the goods. Why, my dear 
sir, our office boy could give you more 
ideas in an hour than you ever heard of 
in all your life. 

"Good morning, sir." Then, as the 
young man reached the door, Cyrus P. 
looked over his shoulder which still rose 
and fell with mirth, "Say, you better 
take that idea to Strong across the street. 
He needs it bad, and I wouldn't wonder 
if he won't give you a box of his fodder 
for it." 

"That's where I'm headed,' said Eb- 
enezer as he quietly closed the door. 

It was not difficult to see Paul II. 
Strong of the Strong Breakfast Food Co. 
Strong's affairs were in that condition 



42 



THE MIDWESTERN 



which makes any sort of straws worth 
grabbing at ; anyways, Strong was the 
sort of a man who is always ready to 
listen to what the other fellow has to say, 
regardless of his appearance. 

"I have an idea for the sale of a good 
breakfast food," announced Ebenezer 
when they were seated in Strong's pri- 
vate office. 

"I am always glad to get new ideas," 
said Strong. He was a youngish man, 
with a frank smooth face — smooth ex- 
cept for a net-work of wrinkles around 
his eyes, the foot-prints of business cares. 
"But frankly, Mr. Cram, we need addi- 
tional capital more than anything else. 
We have a good thing, but it has ex- 
hausted my resources to get the factory 
started, and now I have no capital to 
push the sales." 

"That is just what my idea is for — to 
push the sales," remarked Ebenezer. 

"But the trouble would be, Mr. Cram, 
we have no capital at all with which to 
put an idea in operation. I have already 
gone my limit, and that falls short of 
orders." 

Strong had in fact not only put in 
every cent of his capital and all he could 
borrow, but ten of the best years of his 
life. The fight had been hard, and while 
success seemed always alluringly near, it 
led on deeper and deeper, until now he 
faced failure. 

"Now if you had a little money," he 
suggested hopefully, "I could make you 
a very attractive offer." 

"Let me have a box of your stuff," said 
Ebenezer rising, "and one of Brittlebat's, 
too, if you have it handy." 

With the two boxes under his arm 
Cram went out and found a restaurant. 

"Two empty bowls and a pitcher of 
cream," he ordered. 

First he tried Brittlebat's "Airy Come- 
stible Cero Crisps,' chewing slowly and 
tasting carefully. Then he took "Strong's 
Breakfast Flakes." At the first spoonful 
his face took on a look of satisfaction, 
and he ate two helps before he arose. 

A half hour later he was back in the 
office. "What is your proposition?' 

"Well," said Strong, "we have a fac- 
tory that cost us twenty thousand, and 
other property valued at five thousand. 
If you will put in five thousand, I will 
give you a fifth interest and a position 
with the company at a hundred dollars a 
month. Of course if you haven't that 



much we can arrange it on a smaller fig- 
ure." 

"I reckon I have about that much — 
just about. I sold my farm just before 
I left Missouri. But you ain't selling 
anything now, are you?" 

"Not much," admitted Strong. 

"Purty badly in debt?" 

"Some." 

Ebenezer sat for awhile with his eyes 
squinted at the wall. "Well, I tell you 
how I figure it out. If something don't 
happen in about three months you'll go 
under and lose every cent." 

Strong was silent — but the lines in his 
face deepened. 

"Now, I'll tell you what I'll do. You've 
got a factory, and I have an idea. I 
don't know what your factory is worth, 
and you don't know what my idea is 
worth. Now you give me half interest 
and I'll put in my idea and five thousand 
dollars — me to handle the five thousand; 
and inside of three months something 
will happen." 

"But suppose it doesn't?" asked 
Strong, "where would I be then?" 

"Just where you are going to be any- 
way. I'm running more risk than you 
are, for it ain't very risky for a fellow to 
give away a half interest in a concern 
already in the hole its full length. But 
I'm putting in a mighty good idea and all 
the cash I've got." 

Strong accepted. It really could be no 
worse ; and the native shrewdness and 
self-confidence of Cram gave him the 
glimmer of a hope that maybe he did 
have an idea that would pull them 
through. 

The first day after the papers were 
signed, Ebenezer went through every- 
thing, examined every department, and 
asked several hundred questions. 

Then for a week he did not show up at 
the office at all. 

"Well, where have you been ?" asked 
Strong as Ebenezer walked into the of- 
fice one morning. His tone was impa- 
tient, for things were going badly. 

"Investing that five thousand," an- 
swered the young man coolly as he sat 
down at the desk assigned him. 

"Not all of it?" Strong was horrified. 
He had really expected to persuade him 
to apply part of it on the debts. 

"Sure," answered Cram who had 
picked up the morning paper and was 
studying the scare-heads. To all inquir- 



EBENEZER AND THE BREAKFAST FOOD KING 



43 



ies as to what he did with the money he 
returned a dense silence. 

With the exception of one half-day in 
which he directed the secretary in mail- 
ing two thousand postal cards on which 
were merely printed the address of the 
company, Ebenezer did nothing further. 
He came to the office every morning and 
sat at his desk reading and smoking all 
day. 

Affairs grew worse and worse, and 
Strong was almost in a panic. But Eb- 
enezer refused to get scared or even ex- 
cited. 

"Take it easy, Strong,' he would say 
between puffs of his pipe, "take it easy 
while you can, for it won't be long until 
we have to hustle." 

For two weeks not a thing happened — 
unless the frequent calls of creditors be 
classed as happenings. But Monday 
morning of the third week an order came 
from a little town in Ohio for five dozen 
boxes of "Breakfast Flakes." At noon 
another came from an Illinois town for 
ten dozen ; and in the afternoon a New 
York wholesale house asked for a hun- 
dred dozen. 

The next day there were a dozen small 
orders, and one good order from a Chi- 
cago wholesale house. Strong began to 
hurry around with an incredulous, timid- 
ly hopeful look on his face. 

Wednesday there were orders amount- 
ing to five thousand boxes ; and two ex- 
tra men were put to work in the factory. 

The orders steadily increased, coming 
from north, south and west, from retail- 
ers and wholesalers alike. More men 
were put to work ; the office assumed a 
busy, cheerful air, and Strong went 
around like one in a dream — afraid to be 
waked. 

At the end of the month the remit- 
tances began to come in, and soon the 
creditors of the Strong-Cram Breakfast 
Food Co. felt easy. They passed the 
word that these people were getting on 
their feet at last, and "Breakfast Flakes" 
really looked like a big thing. 

One day early in the second month 
Cyrus P. Brittlebats paused at the en- 
trance to his imposing building to wait 
for Ebenezer Cram whom he saw coming 
down the street. He noticed the country- 
man still wore the slouch hat and serge 
suit, but had on a new shiny pair of shoes. 

"Good morning," said the king affiably 
— with an inward apology to himself for 
stooping so far. 



"Howdy," responded Ebenezer. 

"Still looking for a job?" 

"No." 

The king wrinkled his forehead a min- 
ute. "My superintendent tells me he has 
a vacancy — good place for a beginner, 
and he might give you a chance if you 
speak to him." 

"Thank you," said Ebenezer and 
passed on. The king gasped. He thought 
— but surely he was mistaken — the fellow 
had actually grinned. 

The orders for "Breakfast Flakes" 
steadily increased. The factory was 
working overtime ; and the office force 
was so light-hearted they joked and sang 
and whistled as they hurried around with 
their work. 

It was rumored that twenty men had 
been laid off at the Brittlebat factory — 
temporarily. 

Then a note came from Cyrus P. ask- 
ing if Mr. Ebenezer Cram would not call 
at his office at three o'clock. 

He went, and as he entered, the king 
noticed that a new hat had been added 
to his equipment — but there was still that 
baggy suit of serge. 

"There has been a change in our ad- 
vertising department," began Cyrus P. 
in a very civil tone, "and if you will out- 
line that idea of yours, and it impresses 
me favorably, I will give you a place in 
our publicity department." 

"I appreciate your kindness, Mr. Bat- 
tleax," the tone was very courteous, "but 
that idea is off the market at present." 
He arose to go, but Brittlebat tried to 
persuade him to stay and go out to lun- 
cheon. Ebenezer was too busy to accept, 
and returned at once to his own desk. 

At the end of four months an addition 
to the Strong-Cram factory was being 
rushed ; and in spite of three shifts of 
workers, making "Breakfast Flakes" day 
and night, they were fifty thousand dozen 
behind with their orders. 

Then the papers reported that the big 
factories of the P>rittlebat's company were 
to be closed for a month — in order to in- 
stall new machinery- The discharged 
workmen, however, whom Strong and 
Cram employed, said the trouble was that 
all the "Old Man's warehouses were full 
of Airy Comestible Cero Crisps," and no 
orders were coming in. 

"Good morning," said the king affably 
He noticed this time that even the serge 
suit had been replacd — only the Christ- 
mas neck-tie remained. 



44 



THE MIDWESTERN 



"I say," began Brittlebats with a great 
air of frankness, "you really seemed to 
have an idea after all. I was fooled in 
you. I don't mind acknowledging a mis- 
take when I see it. What will you take 
to come and work for me?" 

"I don't want to work for you." The 
tone was mild, but final. 

"Then how would a proposition strike 
you fellows — you are a partner I under- 
stand — to combine, and take stock in my 
company to the value of your plant — er, 
rather liberal valuation, you under- 
stand?" 

Ebenezer squinted at the ceiling. "Mr. 
Battleax (he could not resist that), there 
is just one way we can combine." 

"What is that?" the fat man leaned 
forward. 

Ebenezer then arose deliberately and 
yawned. "If you will shut down and go 
out of business, we'll give that bright 
office boy of yours a job." He walked 
out. 

When prosperity had proved its stay- 
ing qualities, and convinced even Strong 
that it was not up to any tricks, Eben- 
ezer consented to explain the mystery of 
the idea to his partner. 



"You see," said Ebenezer, "as soon as 
I tasted 'Breakfast Flakes' I knew they 
would go in a hurry if we could just get 
them started. So I had these printed." 
He handed Strong a small card on which 
appeared : 



* "I hereby pledge myself * 

* to call for "Breakfast Flakes" at * 

* every breakfast for one month, and * 

* to refuse all other breakfast foods. * 

* Signed * 



'You remember," continued Ebenezer, 
"that when I was out of the office that 
week the National Traveling Men's As- 
sociation was in convention here. 

"Well, sir, I interviewed one thousand 
of them and gave them five dollars apiece 
to sign one of these cards. See?" 

"I see," said Strong gripping the oth- 
er's hand in a way that said things for 
which there are no words. 



— Holland Magazine. 



DON'T FRET 



Don't get discouraged when you hear 
What people ? iy about you ; 

Don't get the blues and drop a tear 
Because they chance to doubt you. 

Don't go around with troubled brow, 
O'erlooking all life's beauty ; 

The folks that talk will suffer more 
Than you, so do your duty. 



Don't fret and fume and wish them ill — 
Their lives hold little pleasure ; 

Send back a message of goodwill — 
'Twill serve to heap your measure. 

Don't be discouraged, for the world 

Will always criticize you ; 
Earth's dearest treasure is the few 

True friends who love and prize you. 
— Lida Kcck-lViggins. 




MISS LULU HOUSTON 
Daughter of Mrs. M. E. Houston 



BETWEEN THE ACTS 

By Arthur Stanley Riggs. 

Where there arc men, there are 
thieves; where there are women, co- 
quettes. 

Her trousseau must be hand-worked 
— but the man does not see it at all. 

Suppose a woman's tongue were as 
long as her hair ! 

Marrying a charming widow is leav- 
ing one's back door unlocked. 
The vanity of woman is the root of 

trouble. 

I lell is all imaginatii in. 

"In Trust! we trust !" 

( urb stock a divorcee. 

Woman is tinder, man steel, love the 
flint — and the devil hover's round the 
curner waiting to play bellows. 



Marriage de convenance translated 
spells race suicide. 



NO NEED OF A VACATION 

Josh — "J)ern them magazine people. 
I'd like to have them hear my say." 
1 ti— "What's wrong, Josh?" 
Josh — "Jane see a piece in one o' them 
pipers that sed as how the women ort to 
have a vacation once in a while. ( )rt to 
go visilin' and get rested up and a lot 
more foolishness. Now she lows as how 
she ort to go some place. Ses she lias 
worked thirty years and never went none. 
An' it ain't five years since her ma died 
and she was gone two days to the fun- 
eral. An' as fur restin.' that time she 
broke her leg it wur two months afore 
she milked a COW." 




I 



One side of Main Street when Dallas was about one year old 

THE BUILDING OF DALLAS, SOUTH 

DAKOTA, AND ITS FIRST FOURTH 

OF JULY CELEBRATION 

By Harold Young 



In the old pioneer days villages and 
towns were not built in a night. The 
towns of years ago were gradually estab- 
lished. One or two men formed a com- 
munity, which for reasons, afterwards 
developed into cities ; a railroad was 
built or the county seat was es- 
tablished there or some great en- 
terprise was built which made the 
village, after perhaps a long siege 
of mediocrity. This is more or less 



true of new towns in the present time, 
but it does not hold true with Dallas, 
South Dakota. Here is a town which 
was founded and assured of its being in 
a single year, with greater prospects for 
the future. And what will attract atten- 
tion with the Iowa readers of this, this 
was all accomplished by the industry and 
foresight of some Des Moines boys. 

Some years ago, several young men 
were through with their schooling and 







Tripp County embracing nearly a million acres is expected to be opened next fall by the 
government. This shows character of the land. 







Virginia Foster, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Foster, who now Reside in Dallas 



ready to make their own various ways. 
They went to Smith Dakota. They are 
now known by the firm name of Jackson 
Bros., Dallas, S. D. But this was not 
always so. They were only claim hold- 
ers once upon a time. They had their 
little shacks. They endured all the hard- 
ships of the frontier. ( >ne of them was 
the postmaster and h is office was an old 
box with partitions for the patrons' mail. 
They were not discouraged. As they 
learned of this new country they became 
more determined that there were bright 
prospects for the future, and they would 
remain and see what could be done for 
their own benefits. 

They eventually realized from their 
holdings of land, They formed the town 
of Dallas, now called ( )ld Dallas, and 
which is now only a farm. They lurfft 
buildings, some of them two stories. They 



had faith in the upbuilding of their town. 
They expected the Chicago & Northwest- 
ern railroad would come along soon and 
help them by extending the line. 

The railroad did finally come along, 
and to Dallas, but not to Old Dallas. Old 
Dallas became New Dallas, almost in a 
night. The news came to the ever watch- 
ful Jacksons that the road would be ex- 
tended, but farther north. What did 
they do ? They prepared to move. They 
loaded their buildings, two or three of 
them, on wagons with as many as twenty 
horses pulling one, and transported them 
across the prairies. Before this, they had 
their town site purchased by friends, the 
ground surveyed, and made readv for 
occupancy. One day by a circuitous route, 
they approached their village site and the 
town of New Dallas was started. This 
is now a town of over 600 persons. Dal- 




One of the Handsome Turnouts in the Fourth of July Parade, Driven by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jackson 




Yellow Robe on the Left, Swift Bear on the Right. Yellow Robe came 100 miles to visit his 
friend who is very old and was one of the original four big chiefs of the Sioux Tribe 






las is the point from which all business 
will be transacted with the Indian Rose- 
bud Reservation. It will probabF be the 
location of the general land office for the 
transaction of business in connection with 
the opening of Tripp county, South Da- 
kota, which is expected to occur this fall. 
On last fourth of July the first big cele- 
bration was held at Dallas. Thousands, 
of Indians were present from the Rose- 
bud Indian Reservation and hundreds of 
other visitors. Now Dallas is the scene 
of the busy times of peace ; on the Fourth 
it was the camp of the stirring activities 
of war ; mimic war. The Indians repro- 
duced many historic fights and marches. 
Many of the old chiefs who were present 
had seen bloody fields and fights which 
they will not talk of. Among the great 
battles given were those of the Custer 
Massacre and of Wounded Knee. 



Many were the interesting characters 
present. Old Yellow Robe spent an after- 
noon visiting with the old chief, Swift 
Bear. They were seated on a settee in 
front of a building on the main street. 
Their visit seemed to consist of an occa- 
sional grunt and a great deal of smoking. 
Yellow Robe had come in over one hun- 
dred miles and did not seem to be making 
good use of his time. 

Of course the Indians took part in the 
parade. They had their best beaded gar- 
ments on. They had their war bonnets. 
They were happy. They have learned to 
like notice just as much as they did when 
they were on the trail. The whites no- 
ticed them for other reasons then, but 
they do not seem to care now. Dallas on 
the Fourth was a strange commingling of 
the former instruments of war and of 
peace. 




Some of the Indians in the Fourth of July Parade, Chief Stranger Horse and Wife in the Lead 




PAUL B. SAWYER 
Mgr. of the Des Moines Edison Light Co. 



JANSEN P. HAINES 
Mgr. of the Des Moines Gas Co. 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



THE public utilities of Des Moines 
are getting so much publicity it 
is well to consider somewhat 
their relation to the public. One 
of the most important is light 
and heat. Short days and long nights 
are coming. 

Electricity is rapidly coming to the 
front as the matchless light. It has no 
dirt to soil the wall paper, painting or 
draperies ; consumes no oxygen ; does not 
vitiate the atmosphere ; is steady, unflick- 
ering, soft, bright and easy to read or 
write by, and enhances the beauty of the 
home appointments. It presents no fire 
risk. 

An electric lighted house is also nearly 
proof against burglars, for they know it 
is only to touch a button and the whole 
house is instantly lighted from cellar to 
garret. 

Recent experimentation has proven 



that plants will thrive in electric light, a 
boon to many housewives who are lovers 
of flowers. 

A modern house is not complete and 
up to date that is not wired for electric- 
ity. It can be done during construction 
quickly and readily, afterward, without 
damage or defacement of walls or ceil- 
ings, at reasonable cost. 

The possessor of a home wired for 
electricity is an object of envy, so mani- 
fold the comforts and conveniences which 
inventive genius has provided in every de- 
partment of housekeeping, and to no one 
do they come more gratefully than the 
housewife, for they have eliminated from 
household work much of labor and un- 
pleasant features. The drudgery of 
washing and ironing day, the sweeping 
and beating of rugs and carpets, the dis- 
comforts of cooking with coal are all 
relegated to the electric current. 



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OUR PUBUC UTILITIES 



5] 



A visit to the rooms of the Edison 
Light Company, corner of Fifth and 
Mulberry, will prove a surprise on see- 
ing the number of appliances designed for 
various household use, every one a time 
and labor saver. They also will bring a 
charm and daintiness to the kitchen 
which appeals to every Twentieth Cen- 
tury woman. It will be clean ; no dirt, 
dust nor smoke. 

There is the little portable stove, on 
which water can be boiled, meat broiled, 
bread toasted. It can be used in the 
kitchen, dining room or sick room. The 
heat is developed by the current travel 
ing over the wires under the casting just 
where it is needed. There is no smoke 
nor heat thrown off into the room. 

There is the coffee percolator, an ideal 
device for making coffee. It is not a 
coffee boiler. The ground coffee is placed 
in a glass globe at the top; water is put 
in the reservoir ; turn on the current ; the 
water is quickly converted into steam 
which is forced through a small tube 
into the top of the globe, where it falls 
in fine spray and percolates through the 
coffee into the reservoir, extracting the 
entire strength and flavor of the coffee. 
It is furnished with eight feet of cord, 
and can be attached to any lamp socket 
It is nickel plated, highly polished, can 
be set on the dining table, and coffee or 
tea made in a few moments. If a lady 
has callers when the servant is "out," 
she can set the chafing dish and per- 
colator, as bright and clean as her glass 
or china, on a table, attach them to a 
lamp socket, and entertain her guests 
with no trouble. 

There is also the electrical iron of dif- 
ferent sizes, weights and styles for iron- 
ing the most delicate fabrics of feminine 
apparel or the heaviest for men. In 
laundries and big hotels, with these irons 
about two miles a day walking back and 
forth between the ironing board is saved, 
say proprietors, which cuts the labor ex- 
pense. In summer time the cord can be 
attached to a lamp socket, passed through 
an open window to the ironing board on 
the porch, or under a nearby tree, and 
the work done with comfort and ease. 
The heat can be regulated to the work 
required. Sometimes the mistress has 
some dainty thing to press she does not 
wish to put in other hands. It can be 
done in her own room in a moment's 
time. The company will install them foT 
trial of thirty days free. 

There is the iqoo washing machine 




Coffee Percolator Heated by Electricity 

and wringer with a small motor. Con- 
nect them with a lamp socket and elec- 
tricity does all the washing and wring- 
ing, better than by hand, for two cents' 
worth of electricity, while milady sits by 
and cogitates upon the subject of discus- 
sion at the next meeting of her club. 

There is also the revolving fan, quick- 
ly attached to a lamp socket, and highly 
suggestive of comfort when the temper- 
ature is in the 90's. 

The city railway company has adopted 
a system of publicity as a media to get 
in closer touch with the people, and espe- 
cially its patrons by the periodical issu- 
ance of bulletins giving details of its 
management. It wants the public to 
know what it does witli the thousands 
and thousands of nickels it gathers in 
every day. 

As motive force is its greatest asset iL 
starts at the coal pile from which its 
power is converted, and follows the nickel 
through all the various expenditures of 
it, and gives the following as the cost per 
revenue passenger to be deducted from 
each nickel : 

Repairs and renewal 0.75 Cents 

Power 0.33 Cents 

Operating the cars T.50 Cents 

Salaries of officers 0.16 Cents 

Insurance ami vents 0.15 Cents 

Damages and legal expenses. .0.21 Cents 

Taxes and interest I.08 Cents 

General expense 0.25 Cents 

4.43 Cents 



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Transfers are not included in this com- 
putation. Of the twenty million people 
carried in 1907, 3,603,359, or 22 per cent 
held transfers, which are a pure gratuity, 
given without any compulsion by law or 
charter. The writer has seen a dozen 
passengers in a car, every one having a 
transfer. It is not uncommon for half 
the passengers on a car to hold transfers. 

Under the rule of six tickets for 
twenty-five cents, the average fare re- 
ceived is only four and fifty-one hun- 
dredth cents, leaving only sixteen one- 
hundredths of a cent with which to make 
extensions and other improvements. It 
is no marvel, then, that the company has 
paid no dividends. With the strictest 
economy consistent with safety and good 
service, it cannot more than come out 
even at the end of the year, for there is 
still another item of expense, the de- 
preciation, wear and tear, which does 
not appear in the above statement. 

What other industrial or commercial 
corporation would continue business un- 
der such a showing? The solution can 
only be found in the optimism of the 
company, composed as it is of Des 
Moines people, having faith in the city 
of their birth or adoption ; faith in her 
citizens ; pride in the property ; hope in 
the future, and confidence that the public 
will appreciate and sustain their effort 
to build up, and disfavor movements 
made to hinder or obstruct further de- 
velopments of their plans. 

An important part the city railway is 
playing is the development of the outly- 
ing sections of the city, and the distribu- 
tion of the population over a wider area 
than it would otherwise occupy. If the 
service is rapid and regular, the area of 
the residence district is enlarged. A trip 
over any of the longest lines will show 
increasing building activities. Some of 
the lines were pushed into sparsely set- 
tled locations, not because of any land 
booming schemes. They did not pay, but 
substantial houses have sprung up. Peo- 
ple take advantage of the opportunity to 
get away from the more congested sec- 
tions, and still be within easy reach of 
their place of business. The mechanic, 
the clerk and the laborer seeks the avoid- 
ance of the high rents of congested dis- 
tricts by getting farther out, where he 
can have a plat of ground and a garden. 
A nickel will take him to business in 
fifteen or twenty minutes. Suppose, as a 
measure of retrenchment to secure divi- 



dends, the company should pull up some 
of the track where expenses are not paid. 
How near would you be able to ride to 
your home, or quickly and conveniently 
get from one part of the city to another: 

There is no precise means of showing 
the exact per cent of increase of popula- 
tion on any of the lines or parts of lines, 
but a study of the census figures will 
show the largest increase is in those 
wards having the greatest transit facil- 
ities in the outlying sections. 

The following figures were taken from 
the official state census for the years 
given of the population of the several 
wards : 

Ward. Year. Year. Increase. 

1900 1905 

Fir st 9407 13.380 3,973 

Second 8,538 9,874 2,236 

Third 11,109 12,090 981 

Fourth 9,344 10,877 1,583 

Fifth 8,325 9,172 847 

Sixth 10,757 13,305 2,548 

Seventh .... 4,659 7,928 3,269 

The first ward has benefit of the In- 
gersoll, University, Waveland Park and 
Clark Street lines. The seventh ward 
the Fair Ground, Grand View Park, 
Walker Street and East Sixteenth Street 
lines. 

A recent change has been made in the 
car service to relieve the congested con- 
ditions at the waiting room loup. There 
are not minutes enough in an hour to 
allow all the cars to come to" the waiting 
room and transfer passengers. A cross- 
town system has been arranged, which it 
is believed will not only relieve this pres- 
sure, but improve the service in many 
ways. Under this plan passengers can 
ride from one side of the city to the 
other without change of cars ; the tin 
can be shortened, more trips made, and 
greater convenience. Waveland Park 
cars will run direct through to Grand 
View Park ; cars from Thirty-fifth street 
and Twenty-ninth street on the Univer- 
sity line will run straight through to tne 
fair grounds. These cars will not go to 
the waiting room, going east, but on their 
return trip they will go round the loup 
to the waiting room. Transfers will be 
given at junction points with other lines. 

The pay-as-you-enter cars will be used 
on the cross-town lines. The company 
will be greatly pleased, and the conduc- 
tors more than happy, if passengers will 
have their nickel ready on entering the 
cir, as it will prevent congestion of pas- 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



53 



sengers on the rear platform. With sev- 
eral persons entering a car at once, and 
each searching a purse, hand-bag or pock- 
ets for a nickel, before the last one has 
found it, another crossing is reached, and 
another crowd is forcing entrance. Get 
your nickel ready, it will help do things. 

One of the most prominent sources of 
vexation with gas companies is the meter. 
Get near the cashier's window on gas bill 
pay day, and listen to the protests. One 
man declares, "I haven't used that much 
gas ; the meter is wrong." Another hears 
him, and thinks he has a grievance, too. 
While it is not impossible for a meter 
to get wrong and out of order, every 
consumer should read their meter for 
themselves just prior to the visit of the 
company's reader. Though all possible 
measures are adopted by the company to 
avoid errors — they even change the read- 
er's route every month, or so arrange his 
sheets that he can have no knowledge of 
the reading of the prior month — the read- 
ers are only human, and liable to make 
mistakes. If the consumer will read his 
meter, and there is too great discrepancy 
between his reading and that of the com- 
pany reader, a complaint at the office 
of the company will be courteously re- 
ceived, promptly investigated, and good 
feeling restored. Nothing pleases a cus- 
tomer better than prompt attention to 
complaints. This is one step in the "get- 
together" policy now on the uprise in the 
city. The utility companies are manifest- 
ing a remarkable inclination toward it. 
With the co-operation of the people, we 
will soon have another demonstration of 
the way Des Moines does things. 

Two little girls and the house burned 
by the explosion of a gasoline stove, were 
the horrible details in the newspapers a 
few days ago. Had it been an Eclipse 
gas range the accident would not have 
happened. To save a few cents in fuel, 
human life and property is endangered. 
If the house is burned the insurance pol- 
icy would probably be voided, though it 
contained a crafty worded permit to use 
gasoline. The Eclipse gas stove is per- 
fection in utility and economy. A ten- 
pound roast on a coal range weighs when 
cooked but eight pounds ; on a gas range 
it weighs cooked, nine pounds and four- 
teen ounces. One-fifth saved in the nu- 
triment of the food, one-third in the cost 
of tlie fuel, one-quarter in the time of 
cooking, and you don't have to bring a 




I -2 3 

How to Read Your Meter 

half a ton of coal. The gas company is 
ready to demonstrate this. 

At the request of several of our sub- 
scribers we give instructions for reading 
meters, which are simple and useful. 

The small dial marked "Two Feet" is 
only for testing the meter or to detect 
leaks in the pipe. 

A full revolution of the hand on the 
No. 3 dial indicates 1,000 feet. Each 
division therefore is ioo feet. 

A full revolution of the hand on No. 
2 dial indicates io.ooo feet. Each divis- 
ion is therefore 1,000 feet. 

A full revolution of the hand on No. i 
dial indicates 100,000 feet. Each division 
therefore is 10,000 feet. 

The reading of the dials is from left to 
right, taking the figures which the hands 
have passed. 

The readings of the dials in the illus- 
tration are : No. 1 dial, 70,000 ; No. 2 
dial, 5,000 ; No. 3 dial, 200. Making 
75,200 the reading of meter. 

The cyphers are added because the 
fieure on No. 3 dial indicates the number 
of hundreds of feet. 

To detect a leak in the piping of the 
house, or defect in the meter, mark the 
position of the hand on the small, upper 
two-feet dial when no gas is being used, 
say for an hour. If the hand does not 
move, the piping is tight. If it doe* the 
company wants to know it at once. Try 
the "two-feet" test. 

The disagreement between the water 
works company and the city council 
seems to be progressing to an amicable 
settlement without resort to the courts. 
The questions to be solved are multi- 
farious, intricate and perplexing, involv- 
ing also a complete showing of ascer- 
tained facts as a basis of establishing 
rates. The company claims that such has 
been the demand of the city for con- 
struction and extension to keep the equip- 
ment up to the standard itself has fixed, 
it has never been able to secure a dollar 



54 



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as dividends for the money it has ex- 
pended ; that the city owes it a large sum 
for putting in fire hydrants in excess of 
those. rightfully demanded; that the re- 
cent rates fixed by the city council means 
a practical confiscation of private prop- 
erty ; that the fixing of rates should be 
based on facts and not upon sentiment, 
prejudice, or a legislative pronuncia- 



mento. To secure a just conclusion, the 
companv will present its facts to the 
council, and meanwhile the new rates 
ordered are to be held in abeyance in 
accord with the get-together policy now 
dominant with the public utility corpora- 
tions. 

The regular monthly analysis of the 
city water made by Prof. Davis, July 




THE UNIQUE THEATRE 

Taken after night in the rain, showing the fine lighting by electric light 

furnished by the Des Moines Edison Light Co. 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



55 



20th, taken from the public fountain at 
the east front of the Court House shows 
the following: 

Parts per 1,000,000 

Total Solids 382,000 

Loss on Ignition* 98,000 

Chlorine 5,000 

Free Ammonia 023 

Albuminoid Ammonia 125 

Oxygen Consumed, (Kubel) .... 2,100 

Nitrogen in Nitrites Trace 

Nitrogen in Nitrates 440 

*Some change in color. Some odor. 
100 Bacteria per cubic centimeter. 
3 Species of Bacteria. 
2 Liquifying Bacteria per c. c. 
No Colon Bacilli. 

In explanation of the analysis for the 
general reader, it may be said it deter- 
mines the amount of organic matter pres- 
ent, its state of preservation, and dis- 
tinguishes that which comes from animal 
and vegetable sources. Chlorine orig- 
inates in sewage. Free Ammonia is the 
first stage of oxidation of the nitrogen of 
sewage. So also do nitrates result from 
the oxidation of sewage, and they repre- 
sent the final stage of the process. The 
most important is the bacteriological de- 
termination, for not only does it show 
the presence or absence of sewage, but 
its liability to be disease producing. A 
pure water supply affords a nearly con- 
stant number of bacteria at all seasons of 
the year, but there are rarely any that are 
liquifying to gelatine. The most harm- 
ful in water is the typhoid bacillus. Ow- 
ing to near impossibility to detect the 
presence of it even in water known to be 
polluted, the colon bacillus has substi- 
tuted as it can be easily detected, and al- 
ways exists in large numbers in sewage 
polluted water. As it originates only in 
the intestines of man and other animals, 
its presence in a water supply is proof 
that the water has been recently contam- 
inated, and may therefore be dangerous 
for drinking purposes. The analysis 
shows an absence of the colon bacillus; 
that the nitrates are very low ; that the 
water is good. 

The most apparent danger of pollution 
of the water supply of the city is the 
sewage of towns along the river west of 
the city. In March last, Professor Davis 
made an extensive and careful investiga- 



tion of the conditions at Valley Junction, 
Van Meter, Adel, Perry, Panora, Coon 
Rapids and Carroll, all the towns likely 
to be important in contaminating the 
water supply of Des Moines, and he 
found, as evidence of escape from sew- 
age, that typhoid fever was rare in these 
towns, and in some there had been none 
at all. He found little to cause appre- 
hension of danger from the sewage of 
these towns. 

One important disclosure of his inves- 
tigation was that the bed of the river over 
the collecting galleries at the water works 
is composed of fine, almost impervious 
silt, which, with the underlying gravel 
beds, very thoroughly eliminates impur- 
ities from the water, and renders the 
water for the city above suspicion. It is 
only when heavy floods carry away the 
silt bed that the water becomes changed. 
A remedy suggested is the restoration of 
the low dam across 'Coon river below the 
galleries to create and maintain sedimen- 
tation of the silt bed, an accession which 
is seriously contemplated by the water 
company, but unfortunately embargoed 
by the unsettled condition of its financial 
resources, which, it is hoped, will be so 
adjusted as to continue the high standard 
of the suoply system, the nygienic value 
of which is not computable, and for 
which hundreds of other cities would be 
quick to pay millions to possess, for the 
public health is the prime object of a city 
water supply. Louisville, Ky., for two 
years has been spending hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to secure a pure 
water system, and has not yet succeeded. 
Cincinnati is also expending large sums 
for the same purpose; The stable purity 
of the water supply has been an important 
factor in increasing the homes of Des 
Moines, her colleges and universities, for 
the latter would not long survive frequent 
and continued epidemics of disease caused 
by impure water. 

We are living now in the days of pure 
food and drink. An inspector's tag of 
purity goes on the meat ; the label of pur- 
ity and healthfulness on the canned 
foods, but did you ever see the label on 
three million gallons of water? The an- 
alysis given above is from one who is 
deemed one of the best authorities on 
public water supplies in the United 
States. 



56 



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MRS. ROBERT HALSEY PATCHIN 

°f Washington, D. O, who has made a host of friends in Des Moines while visiting 
Mrs. C. H. Patchin the past month 



SIGNS OF SERVICE 



Photographs in the August "World's 
Work" show most plainly the marks 
that twelve years of lecturing and cam- 
paigning have left on Mr. Bryan. A 
portrait of him in 1896 reveals a young 
man in dead earnest about a few is- 
sues. His photograph in 1908 is strik- 
ingly different. It requires no call on 
one's imagination to see in it a man who 
has, whether he would or no, become a 
creator of "issues," a preacher and a 



champion of many causes, with a much 
older appearance 

In the same magazine there appear 
two photographs of Mr. Roosevelt that 
are in obvious contrast with these of 
Bryan. One was taken in 1901, the 
other in 1908. It is evident from them 
that seven years of cares and service 
have wrought but little change in the 
President. He looks now as he looked 
seven years ago. 










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HANDSOME MEDALS GIVEN BEST 
HISTORY STUDENTS 



The accompanying cuts present the 
type of the medals awarded by the Iowa 
Sons of the American Revolution to 
twelve Iowa college students who re- 
ceived the best standings in history study 
in their respective schools. The decision 
to award these medals followed a sugges- 
tion made by General James Rush Lin- 
coln, president of the society, in his an- 
nual address. He urged a greater in- 
terest in history and the society adopted 
this method of stimulating interest. 

The design adopted for the medal was 
based as to the obverse upon the seal of 
the society whose central figure is the 
minute man. rifle in hand, leaving the 
plow in the furrow, for the war. The 
reverse has this inscription : "For excel- 
ling in the study of the history of the 
United States,' and the name of the win- 
ner. 

Twelve institutions presented each the 
name of a medal winner and the medals 
have been persented at commencement, 
except such as arrived too late on ac- 
count of the lateness of the presentation 
of the name. The following are the 
names of the winners and of the institu- 
tions of which they have been students 
the past year, in the order in which the 
names were received : 

Harry Hinds Wood, Iowa College, 
Grinnell ; Grace Floisc Terrill, Cornell 
College, Mr. Vernon; Lee Shillinglaw, 



Normal School, Cedar Falls ; James Ver- 
hey, Central University, Pella ; Ernest C. 
Conrad, Upper Iowa University, Fayette ; 
Pearl Baldwin, Simpson College, Indian- 
ola ; Vincente Ferriols, Agricultural Col- 
lege, Ames ; Jay Tilden Colegrove, State 
University, Iowa Citv ; Teresa Burns, 
Tobin College, Ft. Dodge ; Alta M. Mal- 
loch, Parsons College, Fairfield ; Ethel 
Mae Jones, Drake University, Des 
Moines : Ernest Lauer, Iowa Wesleyan 
University, Mt. Pleasant. 

Presentations have been made as far 
as possible by members of the S. A. R., 
as Col. H. H. Rood, at Cornell College; 
Dr. G. H. Hill, at Iowa College; Roger 
Leavitt, at Normal School ; Gen. J. R. 
Lincoln, at Agricultural College : F. D. 
Hadley, at Simpson College. 

It is intended to repeat the offer of the 
medal to the colleges the coming year 
under the same conditions and it is be- 
lieved that more names of medal win- 
ners will be reported than have been re- 
ported this year, and that individual 
members will offer medals at their own 
expense to high schools and perhaps 
other schools. Reports come in of great- 
ly increased interest arising from the 
competition. The fostering of true pat- 
riotism, the cardinal point in (he S. A. 
R. faith, has been advanced, the mem- 
bers verily believe. 



OUR WASHINGTON LETTER 



Washington, Aug. 10. 
The death of Senator William B. Alli- 
son created a profound impression in 
Washington. The death of no public 
man has ever roused deeper personal in- 
terest and sympathy here. He served for 
a longer time continuously in congress 
than anyone who survives him, and for 
so many years has he been a familiar fig- 
ure in the senate, that he will be missed 
there by the public no less than by his 
colleagues. No man in public life has 
lived more quietly and unostentatiously 
here than Senator Allison. During the 
life time of his wife, he maintained a 
home in Washington, in which Mrs. 
Grimes, wife of Senator Grimes of Iowa, 
was a prominent figure. Since the death 
of his wife he had lived very quietly here, 
entering society little. The loneliness of 
the man, the total absence of any imme- 
diate family, was keenly realized when 
his death came so suddenly the other day, 
and there was neither wife nor child to 
whom to send condolences. So it came to 
pass that Senator Allison's work filled 
his life and was all in all to him. He was 
not the sort of personality to attract all 
sorts and conditions of men — in the col- 
umns of eulogy there is a noticeable lack 
of personal anecdote and incident. But 
for simple, sterling integrity, for a cer- 
tain massive simplicity of character, for 
absolute reliability, he loomed large in 
Washington life. 

As in machinery there is a point called 
the "dead center," so Washington, which 
is the pivot on which the whole political 
structure centers and turns, is a dead cen- 
ter politically. That is, there is less vis- 
ible political discussion and stir than in 
many a western town. With an absent 
executive, and a scattered cabinet, the 
personal equation is reduced to its lowest 
terms, and the wheels of government go 
round automatically. Political gossip is 
gleaned mostly by the faithful reporter 
who haunts the hotel lobbies and gets in- 
terviews from the men whom business or 
pleasure brings to the capital, even in the 
dog days. They are nearly all Taft and 



Bryan interviews and each man has a 
reason for the faith that is in him that 
his candidate will be elected. Sometimes 
he is from New York — "up state ;" some- 
times from the southwest, Texas or Okla- 
homa ; sometimes from the coast. But 
the man that we really listen to with most 
interest and respect, is the man from the 
"middle West." For it is conceded that 
the battle is to be fought out in the great 
Mississippi valley, and your primaries 
and conventions, your congressional nom- 
inations, every move on the political chess 
board, is watched with the keenest inter- 
est in the East. There is a feeling in 
the air that new movements are immi- 
nent — that in many ways the next session 
of congress will see great changes in per- 
sonnel. From day to day, the newspap- 
ers cast the political horoscope and states 
are marked "doubtful" that never were 
doubtful before. 

In the meantime, "Judge" Taft — which 
is really all he has ever wanted to be — 
plays golf at Hot Springs, and only Miss 
Helen Taft, who passed through town 
the other day on her way to Murray Bay, 
Canada, to visit friends and neighbors 
there, has represented the family in 
Washington this summer. 

The one social theme which has 
dwarfed all others in interest is the mar- 
riage of Evelyn Walsh and Ned McLean 
— she the well-known daughter of the 
miner millionaire who lives, when here, 
in the big French chateau on Massachu- 
setts Ave., and he the son of John Mc- 
Lean of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the 
Washington Post. Just why these two 
pampered young people should have 
eloped, is not clear, as there was abso- 
lutely nothing to run away from, unless 
it were the dread of the trosseau and the 
formal wedding. Resident Washington 
is hoping that young Mr. McLean and 
his bride will renovate and occupy the old 
Beale homestead, the long, plain, closed 
yellow house on the corner of H street 
and Jackson Place, which was the prop- 
erty of his maternal grandfather, and 
now belongs to the McLean estate. 



OUR WASHINGTON LETTER 



59 



In this town of closed houses, there is 
not one which looks so hermetically sealed 
as this old mansion, which is pointed out 
by the guides as the house of Commodore 
Decatur. It was built by him in the sec- 
ond decade of the nineteenth century 
from prize money received for the var- 
ious vessels he had captured, it was 
from this house that he went to meet his 
death in the duel with Barron at Bladens- 
burg, and to it he was brought home to 
die. Later the house was occupied by 
Edward Livingstone, secretary of state. 
Then it was converted into the British 
Legation. Van Bur'en lived here as sec- 
retary of state. The house finally passed 
into the hands of Gen. Edward Fitzgerald 
Beale, the father of Mrs. John McLean, 
who was a grandson of Commodore 
Truxton, one of the six captains ap- 
pointed by General Washington to guard 
the commerce of the United States. De- 
catur had begun his naval career under 
Truxton, and General Beale kept the 
house as near as possible what it had been 
under Commodore Decatur's occupancy, 
and his widow occupied it after his death, 
but with her passing it was, and has been 
for years, closed. This is the story of a 
house. This is what the megaphone man 
does not say. But how are we ever going 
to have any dignity or stability in Amer- 
ican life unless people are willing to live 
longer in the same place? 

The rumor of Miss Elkins' marriage 
to the Duke of Abreizzi comes and goes, 
until the public feels that it has been 
trifled with, but everyone believes now 
that the marriage will soon be announced 
— a marriage which will make her in 
rank the fourtii lady in Italy. 

Of course, if the United States is to 
have outlying possessions it will be mere- 
ly a question of time that we shall have 
a colonial secretary. To him will fall 
such duties as were undertaken by Acting 
Secretary of State, Robert Bacon, who 
early this month went to Cuba, made a 
brief stay, then to Guantanano, where he 
took passage by the Mayflower for Porto 
Rico, where he took part in the adjust- 
ment of the question over the disposal of 
church property, and then to study con- 
ditions in the black republic of Hayti, 
where there is great suffering, due to 
incendiary fires and famine. 

Little republics, as well as big ones, are 
often ungrateful, and "intervention," an 
ungracious duty, but it is pleasant to note 



that Porto Rico, on July 25th, celebrated 
the tenth anniversary of the landing of 
American troops. The day was espe- 
cially observed at Ponce, where Governor 
Post and the insular officials reviewed a 
parade, and afterward attended a ban- 
quet and a ball. 

One of the interesting things to do this 
summer is to go over to Fort Meyer late 
in the afternoon and see Capt. Baldwin 
test the air ship which he hopes to sell to 
the government. 

The air ship is rapidly passing from 
the field of experiment into that of public 
utility. Capt. Baldwin's recent success- 
ful flights in this city are familiarizing 
the public with this new denizen of the 
air. The most reassuring part of the 
performance has been his perfect control 
of the machine. The public cares more 
for this, at this stage of the game, than 
for speed. Roy Knabenshue was here 
the other day, and at the end of a flight 
in which the big gray flyer had risen as 
easily as a bird three hundred feet into 
the air, circled, dipped and risen again, 
said to Capt. Baldwin that he would not 
want to try a race against that ship. The 
air ship is corralled in a big tent at the 
parade ground at Fort Meyer, and is a 
constant attraction. Already the report- 
ers are calling the aeronauts "sky skip- 
pers," a hint of the new nomenclature 
which each new invention brings. 

And the mayor of a Florida village has 
passed an ordinance regulating the speed 
of air ships, and claiming jurisdiction 25 
miles — straight up. 

Washington is to be a city of silence. 
If Mayor Sylvester has his way all un- 
necessary and undesirabel noises are to be 
suppressed. He has issued a creed of 
police regulations longer than the moral 
law. Bells are not to ring out of season, 
whistles are not to blow, street cries are 
to be hushed. Early milk and bread wag- 
ons are to be somehow regulated that 
they do not interfere with slumber. The 
"ash man" is to cease from troubling. 
Special policemen on bicycles will look 
after cats thnt make night hideous. Tf 
Mayor Sylvester has his way there will 
not be "a sound in sight. " 



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THE MIDWESTERN 

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 





J. S. WILSON 



We are pleased to present to The 
Midwestern readers, Mr. J. S. Wilson, 
president of the J. S. Wilson Floral Co. 
Mr. Wilson, after serving as manager 
of the Vaughan Seed Store greenhouses 
at Western Springs for 17 years, comes 
to Des Moines, buying out the big plant 
of the Vaughan greenhouses at 35th 
<fnd Ingersoll. 

The plant is being greatly enlarged 
and is one of the most complete in the 
middle west. 

Mr. Wilson is a thoroughly up-to- 
date and practical man in his line of 
business and will spare no pains to 
please his customers. Cut flowers anc ! 
plants of all kinds will be found at his 
greenhouses. A visit to these beautiful 
greenhouses will well repay the lover of 
flowers and greenery. 



A GOOD REASON 



A prominent business mail was ac- 
costed the other day by an acquaintance 
whom he had not seen for some weeks 
with the exclamation, "Hello, old man, 
how fine you're looking ! What is the se- 
cret of this renewed youth?" 

"Just a little secret," was the reply. "I 
eat luncheon every day at the Boston 
Lunch, and my dyspepsia, which the doc- 
tor insisted was caused by lunching in- 
discriminately, has entirely left me. I 
used to try it all around, everywhere, and 
anywhere. But a lucky chance took me 



into the Boston Lunch about six months 
ago and in a week, after eating there 
every day, the dyspepsia left me entirely. 
Now I don't know I've got a stomach, 
and I eat anything I fancy from their 
tempting bill of fare. Come along in 
with me and have an apple dumpling. 
Doesn't that sound good?" 

And as the two men, well known in 
business circles in Des Moines, turned the 
corner, they bent their footsteps toward 
the Boston Lunch on Sixth Avenue. 



Mr. L. Schaefer, ladies' tailor, on the 
fourth floor of the Good Block, is carry- 
ing the finest and most complete line of 
samples for fall and winter suits. The 
colors to predominate are black, brown, 
various shades of green and all shades of 
gray, while purples and blues are also 
good. Mr. Schaefer can make a Stunning 
suit and some of the recent things he has 
made show the real artistic taste of the 
tailor who knows how. A call at this 
establishment will well repay the ladies 
of the city. 



WU TING-FANG'S REPLY 

"May I ask you why you attach so 
much importance to the dragon in your 
country?" asked the woman who was at 
dinner with Wu Ting-Fang. "You know 
there is no such creature, don't you? 
You have never seen one, have you?" 

"My dear madam," graciously an- 
swered the great Chinese, "why do you 
attach so much importance to the God- 
dess of Liberty on your coins? You 
know there is no such lady, don't you? 
You have never seen her have you?" 



PEOPLE WILL TALK 



You may get through the world, but 

'twill be very slow, 
If you listen to all that is said as you go ; 
You'll be worried and fretted and kept 

in a stew — 
For meddlesome tongues must have 

something to do. 

And people will talk. 

If quiet and modest, you'll have it pre- 
sumed 

That your humble position is only as- 
sumed — 

You're a wolf in sheep's clothing, or 
else you're a fool, 

But don't get excited ; keep perfectly 
cool — 

For people will talk. 

And then, if you show the least bold- 
ness of heart, 

Or a slight disposition to take your own 
part, 

They call you an upstart, conceited and 
vain ; 

But keep straight ahead ; don't stop to 
explain. 

For people will talk. 



If threadbare your dress, or old-fash- 
ioned your hat, 

Some person will surely take notice of 
that, 

And hint rather strong that you can't 
pay your way ; 

But don't get excited, whatever you say — 
For people will talk. 

If you dress in the fashion, don't think 

to escape, 
For they criticise then in a different 

shape ; 
You're ahead of your means, or your 

tailor's unpaid, 
But mind your own business, there's 

naught to be made, 
For people will talk. 

Now, the best way to do is to do as you 

please, 
For your mind, if you have one, will then 

be at ease. 
Of course, you will meet with all sorts 

of abuse, 
But don't think to stop it — it's really no 

use — 

For people will talk. 



LITTLE BY LITTLE 



Little by little the time goes by, — 
Short if you sing through it, long if you 

sigh ; 
Little by little, an hour a day, 
Gone with the years that have vanished 

away ; 
Little by little the race is run, 
Trouble, and waiting, and toil are done. 

Little by little the skies grow clear ; 
Little by little the sun comes near ; 
Little by little the days smile out 
Gladder and brighter on pain and doubt ; 
Little by little the seed we sow 
Into a beautiful yield will grow. 



Little by little the world grows strong 
Fighting the battle of Right and Wrong ; 
Little by little the Wrong gives way, 
Little by little the Right has sway ; 
Little by little all longing souls 
Struggle up nearer the shining goals. 

Little by little the good in men 
Blossoms to beauty for human ken ; 
Little by little the angels see 
Prophecies better of good to be ; 
Little by little the God of all 
Lifts the world nearer the pleading call. 

— Leon Herbert. 



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OUR LIBRARY TABLE 



Edited by Miranda 



Colonel Alfred C. Sharpe, of the 23rd 
U. S. Infantry, has written a book 
which is already receiving favorable at- 
tention in military circles the world 
around. The volume is entitled "Mak- 
ing a Soldier," and is published by 
The Acme Pub. Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. 
Col. Sharpe has won many honors 
through pure merit in his career as an 
army man, being Gold Medal Life 
Member Military Service Institution, 
Sometime Professor of Military Science 
and Tactics, Acting Judge Advocate, U. 
S. A., Ass't. Adj't. General and Inspec- 
tor General, U. S. V., Military Secre- 
tary, Umpire, Chief Umpire and Chief 
of Start Maneuver Camps and late 
Member General Staff Corps. Col. 
Sharpe is an Iowa man and is certainly 
a credit to the state as a scholar and a 
soldier. 



Frederic S. Isham, author of "The 
Lady of the Mount" and other novels, 
who is now engaged in literary work in 
the far east, tells a few amusing inci- 
dents in connection with the effort to 
"Europeanize" Japan in the provinces 
o>" that country. When the law was en- 
acted that the sexes should not bathe 
together, both the people and the bath- 
house proprietors did not understand; 
here was a fundamental blow at a cus- 
tom as old as their institutions. But 
the Jap has respect for the law and the 
proprietor unhesitatingly complied with 
the new order of things ; but in a way 
essentially Japanese. He stretched a 
rope across -the middle of the tank, and 
thereafter the men bathed on one side 
of the rope and the women on the 
other. Another instance of like charac- 
ter happened when the edict went forth 
at the seaside provincial places that men 
and women should not bathe together 
in the ocean without being properly at- 
tired. The Japs of both sexes at once 
obeyed ; they went into the water ade- 



quately dressed, but, when they came 
out, they took off their clothes, and, in- 
nocent of any wrong-doing, so disport- 
ed themselves upon the sands. The 
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SWEET TEMPER IS THE FIRST 
AID TOWARD BEAUTY 

Beauty of grooming, correct poise 
and ability to make the most ot one's 
good points count for more than a beau- 
tiful face. Any woman with a passable 
face may be attractive and even be con- 
sidered beautiful, if she will cultivate the 
art of being well groomed. 

"There are so many great things that 
go together making a well-groomed 
woman," said a well-known beauty cul- 
turist. "The first thing we teach our 
patrons is the proper use of the mirror. 
We teach women to look hopeful, how 
to wear their clothes, how to make their 
eyes shine, to lift the corners of their 
lips ,and to observe what a pleasing ef- 
fect is obtained. After a time this be- 
comes a habit, and the mirror watchful- 
ness is no longer necessary. Good 
nature is an essential to a woman who 
would appear at herbest. Grouchiness, 
ot ill-temper, is her own worst enemy. 
Good nature depends, of course, very 
largely on being well dressed, and a 
well-groomed woman is nearly always 
sweet-tempered." — The September De- 
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JOHN A. BAAL 
Manager of the Carr-Adams Co. 



TWILIGHT 

By Beth Slater Whitsun. in the July 
"Metropolitan Magazine'' 

The western hills are now with dark- 
ness rimmed, 

The sky a silver shield with white stars 
set; 

Upon the stream's transparent breast is 

linned 
Great rugged trees in solid tone of jet ; 
The fields with graying shadows are be- 

dimmed, 
And spent winds 'mid the tangled 

grasses fret. 



Moore, of Columbia University. The 
first volume, which was published some 
weeks ago, and which has been attract- 
ing much attention, included the mate- 
rial down to the year 1830, while the 
new volume comprises the speeches, 
state papers, etc., of President Buchan- 
an from 1830 till 1836. Another vol- 
ume will probably be issued during the 
summer. 



The Lippincotts have issued the sec- 
ond volume of "The Works of James 
Buchanan," edited by Prof. John Bassett 



AN EXCELLENT MIDSUMMER 

NUMBER 

The August number of "The Ladies' 
World" is given up chiefly to fiction — 
and excellent fiction it is, so good, in 
fact, as to restore our belief in the short 
story. There is variety enough to suit 
every taste, but all have that touch of 




MISS GENEVIEVE WHEAT 

Of Dubuque, whose Marriage to John A. Baal, 
Manager of the Carr-Adams Co., occurs 
September 8 



human nature that makes them attract- 
ive to everyone who reads. As a col- 
lection the illustrations are remarkable, 
and typographically the magazine is, as 
always, a delight to the eye. Beside the 
stories — eight in all — there are the 
usual departments, which take up time- 
1) matters of household interest, of 
health, the Care of Children, Summer 
and the Complexion, and the Midsum- 
mer fashions, nil treated iii a sane, prac- 
tical way, which gives the impression 
that the writers know what they are 
talking about. To sum up, this number 
is up to the usual high standard of the 
publication. — (New York: Fifty Cents a 
Year.) 



lotte Weber-Ditzler and other famous ar- 
tists, you will appreciate what a treat this 
summer magazine has in store for you. 

There are serious and practical things, 
too. Doctor Hale talks helpfully about 
"Sleep and Re-Creation." "The Garden 
in August," many recipes for summer 
salads, meats and substitutes for meats 
by Fannie Merritt Farmer and Christine 
Terhune Herrick, the Summer Fashions 
by Grace Margaret Gould, Sam Loyd's 
Own Puzzle Page, are a few of the things 
that will interest most every woman who 
reads the August Woman's Home Com- 
panion. 



The .August issue i if Woman's Home 
Companion is full of delightful stories — 
just the right sort for mid-summer read- 
ing. Just to pick up the magazine and 
look at the little Dutch boy and the wind- 
mill on the cover makes you feel cool and 
comfortable. Then, when you open the 
magazine, you come across enough stor- 
ies and entrancing illustrations to give 
you enjoyment for the entire month. 

Some of the authors are Temple Bailey, 
Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Marion Hill. 
Ruth Wilson Herrick, May Isabel Fisk, 
Clinton Dangerlield and Harvey J. 
O'Higgins. And when we tell you that 
these stories are illustrated by Orson 
Powell, Alice Barber Stephens, Char- 



Meredith Nicholson, author of "The 
House of a Thousand Candles" and 
"The Port of Missing Men," was recent- 
ly offered a position and salary by a 
prominent theatrical manager, his duties 
to consist solely of devising alluring 
titles for plays. Mr. Nicholson, con- 
trasting the peace and quiet of the farm 
on which he is spending the summer 
with (lie nervous excitement and heart- 
burning that attend the naming of any- 
thing literary or theatrical respectfully 
declined tin- job of Official Nomen- 
clator, 



Edith Macvane, author of "The 
I Indices of Dreams," the novel i liat has 
set all Newport in a furore, is no stran- 
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about as she has appeared very much in 
the "charmed circle" here and in 
Europe. She has spent a great deal of 
time abroad, particularly in France, 
where a part of her family resides. The 
story itself was written in France and 
Italy during the summer of 1907. 



SOLITUDE 

By John Kendrick Bangs, in the July Metropolitan 
Magazine 

The solitude of hills, or of the sea, 
The solitude of dense far-stretching 

woods, 
Have naught in them of loneliness 

for me, 
Who love the songs of elemental 
moods. 
But in the city streets, where myriad 
feet 
Pass here and von in hurried onward 
press, 
'Tis there I find a wilderness complete, 
And taste the woes of utter loneliness. 



Rene Bazin's novel, "The Nun," re- 
cently published in this country by the 
Scribners, was so successful from the 
publishers' standpoint and caused so 
much comment and discussion that the 
Scribners have recently brought out M. 
Bazin's "Redemption," and expect soon 
to publish a third book by this author, 
"The Coming Harvest." "Redemption" 
(De toute san ame) is the story of the 
life of a beautiful young girl, a milliner 
in the town of Nantes. "The Coming 
Harvest" (Le ble qui Leve) is the dra- 
matic and moving story of a workman, 
a wood-cutter, and of a nobleman in 
the country in France. Both books are 
written with profound power and beauty 
of expression. 

WOOD MAGIC 

By Beth Slater Whitson. in the August Metropolitan 
Magazine 

"The gods are dead. The pipes of Pan 
are still." 
So say the wise, but in the wood's 
deep heart 
I feel the slow reverberating thrill 
Of music, human touch cannot im- 
part. 
The murmur of a thousand strings at 
play 
In sobbing ecstasv ! Mv dull ears 
thrill 
To every note. 'Tis but the wise who say 
"The gods are dead, the pipes of Pan 
are still." 



The Wise Landlord 



No far-seeing landlord nowadays should think for one 
moment of building or owning a moderate sized house or cottage 
without having it completely wired for electric light and bright- 
ened up with a few inexpensive fixtures. 

It is the house so favored that rents easiest to the better 
class of tenants, brings better revenue and stays rented longer. 

The income lost on account of a house being vacant for a 
month would more than pay for the wiring of it. 

Wise landlords also know that electric lighting does not 

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blacken up the walls and ceiling and that the extra expense of 

papering or decorating a house lighted by inferior methods will 
in time pay for the total cost of wiring. 

The applicant for your house who wants electric light is the 
very one you should want to occupy it, because they take a pride 
in themselves and their house and they will be most apt to take 
pains in caring for your property. 




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PURE FOOD DEPARTMENT 



OVEN BREAD 

American tourists often 'have com- 
mented on the fact that bread baked in 
the rural districts of Canada, Cuba and 
parts of Central and South America is 
superior to any bread to be obtained in 
the United States. In the places men- 
tioned the bread is made up in the old- 
fashioned manner and kneaded much 
more thoroughly than our bread ; the in- 
habitants still continue to use the large 
brick ovens out of doors, such as were 
built in France 250 years ago, and used 
in this country before the Revolutionary 
war. The perfection of the stove and 
range in the last fifty years has driven 
many of these ovens out of commission, 
but many of the inhabitants think that 
no good baking can be done in any other 
oven. Its use is simple. A fire is made 
in the oven of good hardwood, and when 
the oven is exceedingly hot, the ashes 
are raked out and the large loaves ready 
to bake are placed on the bottom of the 
oven without pans. This method of bak- 
ing makes a very thick croute or crust. 
As all of the natural elements of the 
grain are left in the flour, the bread is 
dark in color. 



ITS ALL-AROUND USEFULNESS 

Every good baker who uses Falcon 
Flour, "the only flour made in Des 
Moines," becomes attached to it on ac- 
count of its delicious quality — and also 
because it is just as good for one thing 
as for another. For light rolls, bread, 
pan cakes, biscuits, pastry and for cake, 
it is equally good and unsurpassed by any 
other flour made anywhere. This adap- 
tability to various uses is a great saving 
of trouble to the busy housewife. One 
sack of Falcon Flour properly handled 
will insure the loyalty of any good cook 
who uses it. 



WORTH KNOWING 

The average consumer of baking 
powder does not know that a reaction 
occurs in the process of baking. When- 
ever a chemical reaction takes place, the 
nature of the original materials is en- 



tirely changed, so that the substances 
which remain in the food to be eaten 
are very different from those which 
composed the baking powder before 
baking. For this reason the statement 
that a baking powder contains alum or 
cream of tartar is worthless so far as 
informing the consumer as to what he 
eats. What the consumer wants to 
know is what goes into his stomach, not 
what is in the can. Food prepared with 
a cream of tartar baking powder does 
not contain any cream of tartar, just 
as food prepared with alum baking pow- 
der is free from alum. Some baking 
powders leave large quantities of Ro- 
chelle Salts in the food, which is a dan- 
gerous drug and is produced by the 
chemical combination of bicarbonate of 
soda and cream of tartar; others leave 
lime, ammonia, etc. 

Calumet Baking Powder has been for 
sc many years the standard of all that 
is good in baking powder that its pur- 
ity needs no defense. There is just 
one fact that will bring this point forci- 
bly to the reader's mind. This state, in 
common with nearly every other state 
in the Union, now has a very stringent 
pure food law which in no uncertain 
terms prohibits the manufacture and 
sale of any food substances injurious to 
health. Calumet Baking Powder com- 
plies with the pure food laws of this and 
all other states. 

Why should the consumer pay forty- 
five or fifty cents per pound for baking 
powder, when the best baking powder 
in the world can be made to retail at 
twenty-five cents per pound (the price 
asked for Calumet Baking Powder)? 

The materials used in the manufac- 
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carefully selected and treated and cor- 
rectly proportioned and combined that 
the bread, cake or biscuits you eat are 
free from any chemicals, such as cream 
of tartar, tartaric acid, rochelle salts, 
alum, lime or ammonia. In buying Cal- 
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A FAMILY BLESSING 

During the hot summer weather of 
the past two months, much sickness has 
been prevented in Des Moines by the 
use of Pasteurized milk and cream now 
in general use all over the city. The 
process of Pasteurization used by the 
Iowa Dairy Company is such that abso- 
lute freedom from germs and from dirt 
of any kind is assured. It is put up in 
thoroughly sterilized bottles and deliv- 
ered well sealed, just off the ice. For 
many years there has been a great need 
in Des Moines for clean milk, delivered in 
first-class condition. Now not only this 
demand is fully satisfied, but it is also 
made perfectly sanitary by the process 
of Pasteurization. Every good grocer 
and market in the city keeps the Iowa 
Dairy Company's Pasteurized Milk and 
Cream. Ask for them and take no other. 



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months, with The Midwestern for Only 
$ 1 .00 a year. Send us $ 1 .00 and get these 
two splendid publications for a year. 




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73 



HOUSEHOLD HELPS AND HINTS 

THE MIDWESTERN is to have a Household Helps and Hints department. Any person who 
will send us a good item which we can use will be entitled to six months' subscription to THE 
MIDWESTERN, either for himself or for a friend. Send in your helpful suggestions before the 
tenth of each month. Only initials of contributors will be used unless directions to the contrary are 
given. — Editor.] 



The Lawn. 

In August the knife of the lawn mower 
should be set high, so as to cut the grass 
twice as long as in the early part of tfie sea- 
son, and it should be kept that way until the 
middle of September. This will preserve 
the grass by shading the roots during the 
hot dry season. Keep the grass short until 
the first frost comes, and then keep it four 
to five inches long, and let it go over winter 
that way. The result will be a luxurious 
growth early in the spring. 

The Use of the Table Cloth. 

Use a table cloth at dinner, covering your 
polished table with a soft service cloth of 
felt, Canton flannel or asbestos to protect 
it from the hot dishes. Embroidered doilies 
may be used at breakfast and luncheon. 



Entertaining Company. 

If the friends you are entertaining wish 
you to play for them they will probably ask 
you to do so, otherwise there is danger that 
you may bore them by playing on the piano. 
However, about this you must judge. Most 



people enjoy gooa music, 
met those who dia not. 



although I have 



Elderberries. 

I had always seen elderberries stripped 
from the branches altogether by using the 
hands. To me it was a new idea to use a 
fork. Hold the bunch by the stem against 
the side of a dish and with the fork in the 
other hand simply pull the berries away. 
They come away from the stems and are not 
crushed as when pulled off with the fingers, 
to say nothing of the condition of one's 
hands. — Mrs. E. T. J., Peoria, 111. 

The Sand-bag As a Warmer. 

A sand-bag as a warmer is said to be 
greatly superior to a h,>l; water bottle, which 
many people prize Bi. highly. Get some 
clean, fine sand; dry i. thoroughly; make a 
bag about eight inches square of flannel, fill 
it with the dry sand, sew the opening care- 
fully together, and cover the bag with cot- 
ton or linen cloth. This will prevent the 
sand from sifting out, and also enable any 
one to heat the bag quickly by placing It 
in an oven or on top of a stove. The sand 
holds the heat for a long time. 



The Safest Way 

To Do Business Nowadays 

is to deposit your money and settle your 
accounts by cheek. 

Errors and disputes are practically unknown 
where checks are used, because the voucher 
serves as a receipt and record- 

We invite small as well as large accounts. 

Four per cent interest paid in our savings 
department- 

Capital City 

State Bank 

Bank building, East Fifth and Locust Streets, 

DES MOINES, IOWA 

Henry Wagner, Pres. 
J. A. T. Hull, V. Pres. 
J. A. McKinney, Cashier. 
D. J. Van Liew, Asst, Cash. 




Health, Comfort and Convenience 

■GREEN'S FURNACES- 




THE KIND THAT SATISFY 



HEALTHY — because they keep a constant circula- 
tion of fresh air throughout your house; COMFORT- 
ABLE — because your house is evenly heated in every 
place, and CONVENIENT — because you have but one 
heater to take care of; no more work than one stove. 
A man said recently: "I made but one mistake in regard 
to the Green furnace I put in last year, and that is that 1 
did not put it in 25 years ago. It costs no more than my 
stoves did, we have no dirt in the house and gives us the 
use of the space that the stoves occupied." 

GREEN'S COLONIAL FURNACE 

is provided with a smoke consuming fire-pot which allows 
the air to pass into and mix with the fuel and gases, and 
the oxygen thus introduced ell around the pot burns the 
carbon, and the result is less smoke, less fuel and more 
heat. The furnace has a large body, double feed doors, 
water coil pocket, hollow grate bars, each of which 
operates independently of the others, long smoke travel, 
with oval flue for long distance heating. 

Come in and see us, and we will show you these fur- 
naces, or write us and we will send you catalogue. 



GREEN FOUNDRY & FURNACE WORKS, 



2d and Rock 
Island Tracks 



DES MOINES, IOWA 



Miss Livingstone 
Private School 



Is Now 
Open 



Special ;iilention triven to trades and high school 
work. Hours n to 13. Tutoring afternoons. Con- 
gregational (.'hutch. Sixth unit Forest Avenue. 



Our French and German China '. s no . w on 

display. 



We solicit everybody interested to call. It will pay 
you if you want something nice for decorative work , 
Full stock China materials. Picture framing a 
specialty H. JESSE MILLER, 801 Locust St. 
( Corner Store ) 



(Sbrman j^airittflH lank 

DES MOINES, IOWA 

CAPITAL $100,000.00 

(Jlnmutmial Banking 



JAMES WATT, JESSE O WELLS, 

President Vice President 

J. C. O'DONNELL, 

Cashier 

Four per cent Interest Paid in our Savings Department 



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THE MIDWESTERN CELEBRATES 
ITS SECOND BIRTHDAY 



i 



THE MIDWESTERN is two years old with this issue. An immense edition goes out all over 
America and into foreign countries. Two years ago, in the parlors of the Des Moines Life Insurance 
Company, in the Crocker Block, before they had moved into their own building at Seventh and Grand 
Avenue, Mrs. Rawson, secretary of the company, Col. H. B. Hedge, president of the Central State 
Bank, and Harvey J. Ingham, editor of the Register and Leader, met to name the new magazine. 
Some seven hundred names were sent in by those who had seen the offer of $25.00 for the best name 
offered. After much discussion THE MIDWESTERN was chosen, and the name is now known 
far and wide. The magazine was started for "boosting" purposes and has advertised Des Moines 
successfully for two years, and expects always to do that and more. For in time we will take up 
other features of work, which will entitle us to rank with the literary magazines of the east. —*t 

It is with deep gratitude in our hearts to all of our friends that we pause at this second milestone 
on our journey. Without the co-operation of those who love us and who give us their faith, we could 
not have succeeded as we have. We present a few of the letters that have reached us during the past 
month. 




MRS. C. E. RAWSON 

Chairman of the Committee which Named the 

Magazine 

The Midwestern improves with every 
number. I am delighted with it 
always. Your great success is deserved 
and I congratulate you in this your sec- 
ond anniversary. May prosperity attend 
you. Mrs. C. E. Rawson, 

Sec. Des Moines Life Ins. Co. 

Yours of the first is received. 

I shall certainly he glad to accede to 
vour request, giving a brief expression 
of my opinion respecting The Mid- 
western. 



I was surprised to learn that with this 
next issue the magazine will be two 
years old. You and your associates 
are certainly entitled to heartv congrat- 
ulations for your success in its two 
years of existence. You have been al- 
ways true to the interests of Des 
Moines, and have set out some of the 
best features of the Des Moines homes 
and business concerns in a delightful 
way, both by excellent illustrations and 
carefully written descriptions. 

Wishing you and Miss Forney in- 
creasing success for ten times two 
years yet to come, I am 

Yours sincerely, 
George H. Lewis. 

T enjoy and appreciate The Midwes- 
tern. You have reason to feel proud of 
its growth and expansion. It is a 
credit, not alone to you, but to our city 
and state. You have succeeded beyond 
my expectations. I am sure you have 
laid the foundations properly for a per- 
manent success of a most difficult task. 
I await the coming of each number and 
receive it gladly. It is the first of my 
magazines I read and the last I would 
dispense with. You have my most 
earnest and most heartfelt wishes for 
the continued success I am. sure is 
yours. Very truly yours, 

Murray A. Campbell. 



MIDWESTERN CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY 




77 



CAPTAIN H. B. HEDGE 
Member of the Committee which Named the Magazine 



I am just reminded that with the Sep- 
tember issue The Midwestern will be 
two years old, and I wish to congratu- 
late you on your deserved success, and 
all Des Moines and Iowa s'hould be 
proud to have such an able and fair to 
all publication go out from the Capital 
City. H. B. Hedge, 

Pres. Central State Bank. 

I am more and more pleased with 
The Midwestern. It certainly is a fine 
advertisement for Des Moines wherever 
it goes. I found it on the table of a 
dentist in Boston when I was there in 
June. I found the dentist was a regu- 
lar subscriber. Accept my warmest con- 
gratulations upon your second birthday. 
Success and long life to you. 

Mrs. W. F. Mitchell, 
Pres. Des Moines Womens Club. 

I would say, as a business proposi- 
tion T regarded the founding of The 
Midwestern as a very courageous un- 
dertaking, as the field in which The 
Midwestern was launched did not seem 



to me quite ideal for such a venture. I 
have therefore watched its progress 
with interest and as success always 
crowns knowledge with energy, indus- 
try and thrift, The Midwestern has, in 
these two years, notwithstanding some 
adverse conditions, gained an honorable 
place in the magazine world. It has ac- 
quired a host of friends at home and 
abroad and its future is now full of 
promise. In its artistic make-up The 
Midwestern ranks high and it comes to 
up every month filled with "good 
things" of current interest. I always 
want a Midwestern. Sincerely, 

Geo. J, Delmege, 
Pres. Century Fire Ins. Co. 

The Midwestern has been a constant 
surprise to me. It is better than the 
field would seem to warrant, an inter- 
esting monthly contribution to the en- 
tertainment of the people of Des Moines 
and of the state. Cordially, 

Harvev Ingham, 
Editor Register and Lender. 



78 



THE MIDWESTERN 




HARVEY J. INGHAM 
Who was a Member of the Committee which Named the Magazine 






I have found your magazine to be 
wonderfully interesting. You certainly 
have given it great labor. I congratu- 
late you upon your success and hope for 
a continuance of the same. 

Sincerely, 
Lafayette Young, 
Editor Daily Capital. 

I am glad to be able to congratulate 
you upon the success of The Mid- 
western in the face of difficulties that 
must have been to many seemingly in- 
surmountable, but which vou have 
grandly overcome. 

The Midwestern ought to succeed, 
because it deserves to succeed. Iowa 
ought to have a magazine, and The Mid- 
western should be supported generous- 
ly by an appreciative constituency. You 
and your associates deserve credit for 
the excellence already attained, and I 
trust that you may continue long at the 
helm to insure financial success and lit— 
i rarv excellence. 

With best wishes, I am. 

Verv truly yours, 

G. F. Rinehart, 
Editor Daily Tribune. 



I am very glad to have the opportunity 
of giving an expression of my apprecia- 
tion of the real worth and merit of The 
Midwestern. Des Moines should be 
proud to have such a magazine pub- 
lished in our midst, and we bespeak for 
it unlimited prosperitv and usefulness. 
Mrs. J. vV. Cokenower. 

Please accept my congratulations upon 
the remarkable progress of The Mid- 
western. It is my observation that your 
magazine has constantly improved since 
the first issue, and the foothold you have 
secured in Iowa journalism as the result 
of two years' work, is well deserved. 
Iowa is honored by being the home of a 
magazine that devotes itself so consist- 
ently to the best interests of the state 
and capital. The spirit in which your 
publication is edited is of itself a strong 
asset of the forces tlvt arc trying to 
push this state ahead. The Midwestern 
is an invariable booster for Iowa and 
Des Moines. Its manner of boosting is 
always spicy and of the very best sort : 
for the best kind of boosting is the kind 
tint entertains. 

Iowa would he a great loser if de- 
prived of your valuable publication, and 



MIDWESTERN CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY 



79 



it is important to this state and city that 
you continue to grow and prosper. 
With best wishes, I am, 

Yours very truly, 

A. J. MATHIS, 
Mayor of Des Moines. 

On the occasion of The Midwestern's 
second birthday, I desire to extend my 
hearty congratulations and best wishes 
for its future progress. 

That the magazine has for two years 
weathered the storms through which such 
a proposition must always go, is a good 
indication of its quality. 

Whatever else must be said of The 
Midwestern, it certainly has been an ac- 
tive spirit in boosting our city and I hope 
it has come to occupy a permanent place 
in the literary world of Des Moines. 
Falk J. Younker. 

There are magazines and magazines. 
Some devoted to the professions, some 
to science, some to literature. The Mid- 
western deals with Life, the life we live 
and move in, it is interesting to those 
who live now, and its bound volumes 
will be deeply interesting to the gener- 
ations who will come after. 

J. S. Clark, 
Pres. Anchor Fire Ins. Co. 

I desire to congratulate The Mid- 
western Magazine on the success at- 
tained and the great work accomplished 
in the two years of its existence. It is 
a magazine that has done great good for 
Des Moines. Our motto should be, 
"Nothing too good for Des Moines," 
and The Midwestern can well share in 
the joy arising from the growth and 
prosperity of our city. 

I congratulate its editors who have 
labored so faithfully and well, to estab- 
lish this magazine in the central west. 
To promote a magazine in the west was 
a great undertaking, and its success is 
evidence that the west appreciates 
merit. The themes discussed are meri- 
torious and of the highest class. The 
pages of the magazine are not only 
bright, crisp and clean, but demonstrate 
that its editors are critical and wise. 

I wish to especially commend it from 
an artistic standpoint. As such I believe 
it is beyond comparison. Tts illustra- 
tions are of the highest order and de- 
serve commendation and praise. I do 
indeed wish to be numbered with those 
who are proud of its success and to 



hope that each recurring birthday will 
bring renewed vigor and the good 
wishes of its host of friends. 
Sincerely yours, 

Jerry B. Sullivan. 

Accept my hearty congratulations on 
the second anniversary of your very val- 
uable magazine. The publication has 
been so ably edited and conducted that it 
is a matter of pride to not only the citi- 
zens of Des Moines, but those of the en- 
tire state. Its literary, artistic and com- 
mercial value establishes it with the peo- 
ple of the commonwealth. The women of 
the state are especially gratified at the 
success of the magazine, as the editor- 
in-chief, Mrs. Carolyn Ogilvie, holds a 
high place in the esteem and love of Iowa 
women. The best wishes of the people 
who appreciate sincere endeavor to give 
them publications both worthy as literary 
?nd artistic productions will follow the 
work of The Midwestern. 

Mrs. W. T. Johnston. 

Allow me to congratulate The Mid- 
western upon the occasion of its second 
birthday. 

I have been a reader of the magazine 
since the first number, and have great- 
ly appreciated it as a Des Moines pro- 
duction. It would be difficult to over- 
estimate the value of this magazine as 
a medium through which Des Moines is 
becoming known abroad. I have per- 
sonal knowledge of the fact that .1 
large number of copies have Deen or- 
dered in practically every state in the 
Union and in many foreign countries. 

I have found its reading matter to be 
of a wholesome nature, and it is my 
wish that it may continue to prosper in 
every legitimate way. 

Sincerely yours, 

John L. Rendall. 

I have been pleased with The Mid- 
western so far and will say you have 
demonstrated that you are capable of 
editing a first-class magazine. The cit- 
izens of Des Moines should give the 
paper a hearty support. A copy should 
be in every home in the city. 

Yours truly, 
P. M. Casady. 

Your magazine helps make Des 
Moines a great publishing center. Pub- 
licity is the modern business force and 
Des Moines holds the "pen" of Towa. 
Lucius E. Wilson. 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




JUDGE P. M. CASADY 
One of the Friends of Whom THE MIDWESTERN is Proud 



Just a few lines to tell you how much 
I appreciate your bright, sparkling mag- 
azine, for it takes me back to the time 
when as a resident of a neighboring 
town, I used often to visit in Des 
Moines. 

At that time everything was very 
crude, the State House was just fin- 
ished and the environments were con- 
siderably along Nature's line. To-day, 
the faithful reproduction of "The Mid- 
western's" camera show a modern city, 
full-fledged in its business appoint- 
ments, and beautiful in the scenic ef- 
fects of the homes and avenues. 



The devotion of "The Midwestern" 
to its home city and its representative 
men and women — and there are no 
brighter in the land — cannot fail to be 
appreciated, not only at home, but in 
the whole grand State of Iowa. 

The fine paper, illustrations, and un- 
tiring patience and care in its prepara- 
tion, appeal strongly to the reader. 

With best wishes for your success, I 
am sincerely yours, 

Charles K. Skinner, 

Detroit, Mich. 



I 



jfr^s^srs $£g$gg 




The Puritv of the Water 

One_ Drinks 

(Deans Everything to One's Health 

You will find as Healthy and Hearty a class 
of people in the City of Des Moines as you will 
find any place in the world. The fact is it is 
due to the 

PURITY AND CLEANLINESS OF THE 
CITY WATER 

Proven by Test to be the Purest of Water 



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1 





The Wise Landlord 



No far-seeing landlord nowadays should think for one 
moment of building or owning a moderate sized house or cottage 
without having it completely wired for electric light and bright- 
ened up with a few inexpensive fixtures. 

It is the house so favored that rents easiest to the better 
class of tenants, brings better revenue and stays rented longer. 

The income lost on account of a house being vacant for a 
month would more than pay for the wiring of it. 

Wise landlords also know that electric lighting does not 
blacken up the walls and ceiling and that the extra expense of 
papering or decorating a house lighted by inferior methods will 
in time pay for the total cost of wiring. 

The applicant for your house who wants electric light is the 
very one you should want to occupy it, because they take a pride 
in themselves and their house and they will be most apt to take 
pains in caring for your property. 

For full particulars phone 



Des Moines Edison Light Co. 



Mutual 1326 




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2 






R. E.SAWYER j 
C. A. WATROUS i 



Associate Architects 



304 WATROUS BUILDING 



211 SIXTH AVE. 



DES MOINES, IOWA 







Wetherell and Gage . Architects 

l)c$ Iftoines, lOUM 

Some buildings designed by this firm: St. Joseph's Academy; at State Fair Ground: Homestead 
Building. Administration Building, Pavilions. Dairy Halls. Horse Barns. Agricultural Hall. 

Some residences designed bv this firm: Ford Howell. John O'Brien. F. F. Moore. Kalph Jones. 
Wm. Bowen. (Jeortre <>'l>ea. (leortre L. Donson, Morris M. Flavin, J. M. Pierce. 



ttletherell 6 Gage, 



Residence of Ford J. Howell 

ARCHITECTS 

202 YOUNGERMAN BLK. 



LIEBBE, NOURSE & RASMUSSEN 

ARCHITECTS 

Eighth and Walnut Streets 
Des Moines, Iowa 

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8 





library dr. dorr residence 



W. C. BARTON, Architect 702 Y 7 E n s ^™- | u A ilding I 

Has planned many of the Hne residences in the city as well a< numerous cottages. Originality and I 
Satisfaction is his muitu. Makes a specialty of Residences, School houtes, Churches and Public Building's. I 



Mr. E, P. Bailey 



ropnetor 
of the 



Glasgow Woolen Mills 




, . t^ • j I i Announces the 

Store 31Q Sixth Ave., _„ ,_. 

•J 7 rail and Winter 



Announces that their 
Woolens 

have arrived and are ready for your inspection. We are now 
in the tenth year in Des Moines and thousands of satisfied 
customers is the best proof that we have "Made Good.' Our 
shop in Des Moines, all union, is the largest tailoring establish- 
ment in Iowa. Our facilities for busing and selling enables us 
to make Suit or Overcoat for (* T w NO M°RE 1 
that others would charge dou- I J NO LESS ) 

ble for for the same quality of goods. 



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4 







.1. C. MAKDIS, President 



(i. m. P1SCDS. Seo'y and Treat. 



J. C. MARDIS COMPANY 

(IlnutrartnrH of fublir Builflinga anil 

larduiusrs 



Reinforced Concrete Work a Specially 



General Office 



DES MOINES, IOWA 



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r, 




You Want Quick Send the 

Shipment^^ Order Here 

White Cedar and %ed Cedar Posts 

^ed Cedar, White Cedar, Oak ond Cypress Piling 

Fir, Oak, Yellow and White Pine Lumber 

Wheeler Rubber Roofing 

Send us your next inquiry, put us on your mailing 
list for all time. You can get the best the 
market affords by buying of us. 

Wheeler Lumber, Bridge & Supply Go. 

DES MOINES, IOWA 



I 



Paints Giass 

interior Finishes 

We can offer you QUALITY and PRICE 



STANDARD CL 





WHOLESALE 
AND RETAIL 

Mutual Rhone 905 Iowa Rhone 451 
915-917 Walnut St. 



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6 





E 



VITRIFIED 



face BRICK 




We have no agents, but will sell from our plant direct to you 

You cannot buy a better or more artistic face 
brick than we manufacture in Des Moines. 



Let us show you brick quality, brick prices 
and up-to-date artistic coloring, 

THE DES MOINES CLAY MANUFACTURING CO. 



Health, Comfort and Convenience 

■GREEN'S FURNACES- 




THE KIND THAT SATISFY 



HEALTHY — because they keep a constant circula- 
tion of fresh air throughout your house; COMFORT- 
ABLE— because your house is evenly heated in every 
place, and CONVENIENT- because you have but one 
heater to take care of; no more work than one stove 
A man said recently: "I made but one mistake in regard 
to the Green furnace I put in last year, and that is that I 
did not put it in 25 years ago. It costs no more than my 
stoves did, we have no dirt in the house and gives us the 
use of the space that the stoves occupied " 

GREEN'S COLONIAL FURNACE 

is provided with a smoke consuming fire-pot which allows 
the air to pass into and mix with the fuel and gases, and 
the oxygen thus introduced all around the pot tiurns the 
carbon, and the result is less smoke, less fuel and more 
heat. The furnoce has a large body, double feed doors, 
water coil pocket, hollow grate bars, each of which 
operates independently of the others, long smoke travel, 
with oval flue for long distauce heating. 

Come in and see us, and we will show you these fur- 
naces, or write us and we will send you catalogue. 



GREEN FOUNDRY & FURNACE WORKS 



2d and Rock 
Island Tracks 



DES MOINES, IOWA 






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7 



We Would Appreciate It. 




Liebbe, Nourse and Rasmussen, Architect! 




J. H. QUEAlI 

COMPANY 

SEVENTH & CHESTNUT STS. 



LUMBER |_ 



I 



QUEAL 



AND 



COMPANY 

EAST SECOND AND GRAND 



«J 



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8 



M. VITA 
fashionable Ladies Tailor 

of Younker Bros. 

"7T1 NNOUNCES to his many friends in Des 
/» * Moines and Iowa that he is ready to 
make the latest things in highly tailored 
Garments, Suits, Coats, Etc. 

Des Moines is fortunate in having ac- 
cess to an establishment in charge of an 
irtist, which M Vita certainly has proved 
himself to be. The Italian temperament is 
allied to the French in artistic faculty, with 
perhaps a still finer perception of form and 
color. 

M. Vita is the thorough and pains- 
taking artist in his work and everything 
from his hands has a style and beauty pecu- 
liar to itself and most suitable to the wearer. 
All of the foreign books will be found in M. 
Vita's parlors. 

Give him a call before ordering a suit. 






ON THE BANKS OF THE BOONE 

WALTER D. OLNEY 
Nature a picture has painted, 

Most pleasing to behold. 
Each tree leaf beautifully tinted 

Fades and blends with the gold. 
The dark S reen hillside yonder 

Forms a background for the day; 
And the sunshine, warm and tender, 

Kisses in death the leaves of May. 
The crystals of frost have taken 

The place of the dewdrop of June; 
Here Nature a picture is making, 

All along the banks of the Boone. 
I watched her yellow the maple, 

And redden the sumac and oak; 
Darken the butternut and apple, 

Touching the elm a stroke. 
The calalpa and linn are yellow, 

The ash still clings to its green, 
But the golden hues of the willow 

Are as perfect as ever seen. 
The haze of Indian Summer, 

A Warm breeze from the South, 
A brooklet and its murmur 

Meets the river near its mouth. 
The goldenrod by the rivulet, 

Boone 's waters all at rest, 
Ji new moon, and the twilight, 

Setting sun and crimsoned West. 
I bade farewell to this picture, 

I said ' 'good night ' ' for a year 
I left it all With Nature 

As the curtains of night drew near. 




All Half-Tones, 
Designs and Drawings 



DONE BY THE 



Register and Leader 

ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT 

Show that they know their 
business. They are FIRST 
CLASS in every respect. 

PROMPT SERVICE and BEST WORK 
is their motto 



Register and Leader 
Job Department 

DES MOINES 



THE PINNACLE OF CONFECTIONER'S ART 





DAVIDSONS' 
Chocolates 




SOLI) EVERYWHERE 



MANUFACTURED BY 

DAVIDSON BROS. COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

ICE CREAM AND 
CONFECTIONERY 



' 



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10 



Des Moines Fifth Annual 
Pure Food Show 

and 

School of Domestic Science 

October 19 to 31, 

inclusive 

812 and 814 Walnut Street 



"Ask Your Grocer" 



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11 




The 

Beer 

Question 

Should be 

A Very 

Important 

Question with 

Beer 
Patrons 




^ You who drink 
beer ou>e to yourselves 
the knowledge of a 
few essential facts — 
Purity, Cleanliness 
and Quality of 
Materials, Time and 
Skill of making 
B hould be well 

considered . So much beer is not to be de- 
pended upon, because of the lack of 
these essentials. 

fl But SCHLITZ BEER has stood the 
test for years, and is known over the 
whole World, as being the one beer that 
will not make you bilious. // is not the 
kind of beer that is made in a hurry, for 
nothing but sale purposes, but for health 
purposes, and because of this it is given more 
time for proper aging than any beer in the 
world; therefore, it is not a cheap "green 
beer, " but the only £iW that any physi- 
cian would prescribe. It is a Family 
Beer and every parent who is interested in 
his family 's health will k ee P a case of 

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In the Garden at St. Helens 



The Midwestern 



VOLUME 111 



OCTOBER, 1908 



NUMBER 2 



A PORTO RICAN PEDAGOGUE 



Reinette Lovewell 



THE American teacher at Palma 
Alta was writing to the States. 
The Woman's Club of her home 
town had requested a paper on 
Porto Rican characteristics, to 
be read at the March meeting, and she 
drove her pen vigorously over the paper. 
Her sleeves were rolled to the elbow and 
she had thrown her blouse open at the 
throat, for the day was hot and la pro- 
fesora strenuous. 

The side door of her casa opened upon 
a stretch of land where a rank tropical 
growth gladdened her eye. She glanced 
from time to time over the clumps of 
banana trees beyond, to the river where 
the washwomen were rubbing her clothes 
to destruction upon the rocks. 

But it was not of the pueblo people she 
was thinking. Persistently she pictured 
the fussy president saying pompously: 
"One of our number who has gone out 

from among us " 

She dipped her pen into the ink with 
a funny gesture of resolve. 

"It is a wonderful experience," she 
wrote with fervor, "We who are bearing 
our definite share of the White Man's 

Burden " 

A great disgust came to la profesora. 
"Oh, Heavens !" she ejaculated, "if they 
only knew !" 

She threw down her pen and her head 
dropped clown upon the table-top. The 
American teacher at Palma Alta was 
homesick. 

She was very young, this fair-haired 
Porto Rican teacher, and the longing for 
home persecuted her almost beyond en- 
durance. She was filled with a desperate 



desire for her own kin ; all the romantic 
glamour with which she had associated 
her work had long since disappeared, for 
teaching school in Porto Rico had failed 
to be an exciting experience. 

The day was Saturday, and she could 
hear the children in the street saying 
English words over to themselves with- 
out the slightest connection or signific- 
ance. Across the street from her balcony 
a group of Porto Rican gentry were 
gathered around the entrance of a store, 
smoking innumerable cigarettes and ex- 
pectorating freely. Their very attitudes 
filled the girl with contempt. There was 
not an irect figure among them ; those 
who were not on the backs of their pa- 
tient ponies leaned against the sides of 
the building or sprawled across the coun- 
ters. 

Rising, she abandoned her papers and 
went out on the balcony. She had fixed 
the direction in which Massachusetts lay 
to be over a lone palm on the crest of a 
northern hill. Seven months before she 
had come to the island and had been 
assigned to an interior pueblo. Here she 
had come, by rail and by trail, across a 
bridgeless river in a boat poled by a peon, 
into the one long street of Palma Alta 
and to her rickety schoolhouse door. The 
building faced the plaza where the goats 
fed all day long and the American flag 
waved above the tin roof or hung limp 
against its pole when no wind freshened 
the sultry heat of the day. 

At first the teacher boarded in the fam- 
ily of the alcalde, but the hens and dogs 
and bare babies which wandered at will 
over the floor had been too much for her 



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tidy New England soul and she had set 
up housekeeping in a tin-roofed shack of 
her own, with old Tia Candida and a ser- 
vant for company. 

All her exalted ideas of doing good in 
the world had been consumed in the hot 
facts of Porto Rican living, and she was 
learning exactly what it meant to live 
six miles from an English-speaking per- 
son. Just now she had a monthly re- 
port for the Board of Education hanging 
over her shoulders, and the Woman's 
Club paper should go in the next mail. 

She turned reluctantly from the lone 
palm to her work, and began making av- 
erages of attendance and membership. 
She read the names of the pupils slowly : 

Jesu Gonzales y Dias, 

Maria Nonita Torres y Banuchi, 

Jose Pan y Agua, 

Domingo Morales y Padial, 

Ascension Guadalupe y Ramirez — 

A shadow fell upon the balcony, and 
Don Antonio Salgado, late of San Juan, 
now teacher in the public school of Palma 
Alta, appeared upon the threshold. Don 
Antonio was the last straw. 

He had begun by asking her to use her 
influence to obtain for him a chair in the 
faculty of Harvard University, and had 
ended by making violent and unceasing 
love to her. 

Tia Candida was visiting the dress- 
maker, and Jesusa, the muchacha, was 
busy in the kitchen. The moment was 
opportune. 

Don Antonio bowed low before her. 
His cotton clothing was freshly and stiffly 
starched, and over his pink shirt front 
hung a tie of yellow, polka dotted with 
red. A ring set with a huge stone 
adorned his finger and he carried a stick. 

Jesusa rattled the dishes in the room at 
the rear, and Don Antonio dropped 
dramatically upon one knee before la 
profesora. 

"Light of my life!" he began, placing 
the hand with the ring over his heart. 

The girl shuddered at the sight of the 
long unclean nails, but she sat back and 
regarded him calmly. 

"Can I do something for you?" she 
asked in her uncertain Spanish. 

"Ah, alma mia," Antonio moaned, "but 
you are cold as the snow !" 

Never before had he seen a creature 
like her. The pink in her cheek was not 
hidden by powder and he had yet to see 
her use a fan. He thought of his former 
novia, the daughter of the alcalde, who 



had shot amorous glances at him, but 
she had no power to break the spell cast 
upon him by this young American 
woman. 

A step upon the balcony caused both 
to turn to the doorway. A man stood 
there, a man the girl had not seen before, 
and she knew at a glance that he was 
an American. 

"May I intrude?" he asked. 
La profesora sprang to her feet and 
the Porto Rican rose also. 

She put out her hand and gave his a 
hearty grasp. 

"Any English-speaking person is very 
welcome here," she said, "I'm the only 
American for six miles. Do sit down." 

Antonio bowed low before Miss Har- 
wood, muttered an adios to them both, 
and disappeared. 

"You see," Miss Harwood explained, 
"this is the sort of companionship I am 
forced to accept. Do you wonder I am 
glad to see you?" 

The man laughed. "It is very kind 
of you to say this," he said. "I was pret- 
ty lonely for the sight of an American 
myself; I've been traveling around the 
interior a long time, studying the fish in 
the rivers and amusing myself with the 
flora. When I heard there was one of 
our teachers here I took the liberty to 
call." 

He had seated himself in her big chair, 
and Miss Harwood saw that he was very 
tall and broad shouldered, and tanned 
almost as brown as Salgaldo. His face 
seemed, thin and worn, and there were 
deep lines across his forehead ; his hair 
was gray, although he was a young man. 

"Never mind how you got here," she 
told him. "It is such a pleasure to hear 
my own language again. I don't know 
what I ever did this thing for, and I 
have counted the minutes until June. I 
suppose I shall survive, but it does seem 
like an eternity." 

The man noted the longing in her eyes. 
He did not smile, and she wondered a 
little at his gravity. 

After a time he spoke again, in apol- 
ogy- 

"I really can't get accustomed to seeing 
an American woman here under such 
conditions," he said. "You seem to be- 
long," he glanced at the pink flush on 
her face and bare throat, "in a New Eng- 
land apple orchard — about May." 

There was a singular charm in his 
manner. His clothes were dusty and his 



A PORTO RICAN PEDAGOGUE 



19 



face tired, but a something about him 
made the girl feel he was the kind of a 
man that women love, and instinctively 
she wondered about his mother. 

"But I'm right here in Palma Alta," 
she assured him. "Sometimes I think I 
am dreaming it all, and that I shall wake 
up to find myself in my own bed at home. 
But tell me — where in the States do you 
come from?" 

The man's face grew grave. "You see, 
Miss—?" 

"Harwood," the girl filled in quickly. 

"I'm a wanderer on the face of the 
earth, and the place, in the States where 
I came from isn't proud of me. It is a 
long time since I was there, and I have 
been in almost every country since." 

A sudden breeze swept Miss Har- 
wood's papers from the table and across 
the floor. Together they replaced them. 
She noticed that his hand trembled and 
that he coughed at frequent intervals. 
When he spoke again it was to ask about 
her work. 

For an hour they talked, the girl's 
happy tongue running from one subject 
to another. 

"I've had the funniest adventures," she 
told him. "The girls at home simply 
won't believe the things I write. You 
ought to see my school house; it is the 
most absurd structure, but the children 
are dears. It certainly is an experience." 

She was hardly more than a school girl 
herself, the guest thought, as he smiled 
at her descriptions, leading her on with 
questions and comments. 

"I've entirely given up understanding 
the miracle of finding you here,' he said 
at last, "and I don't think I approve the 
situation, although it is giving great 
pleasure to a very weary pilgrim." 

As he glanced at his watch the teacher 
realized the responsibilities of hospitality 
and insisted that he break bread with her. 

She summoned a peon to guide her in 
providing for his horse and gave her 
own muchacha instructions that food be 
placed in her little dining-room. Her 
garden furnished roses, and she chose 
only those that were crimson. 

When he came back he found her in a 
long white gown, with her yellow hair 
lifted from the coil in her neck high 
upon her head, and her pleasure in play- 
ing hostess was as keen as that of a 
child. 

Later, on the balcony, he told her again 
how much he had enjoyed the hours and 



that he must leave the pueblo. He 
opened his watch a second time, and the 
girl saw his eyes linger on a woman's 
face within the case. 

As he turned and met her questioning 
eyes a resolve born of this strange con- 
tact with a girl from his own world came 
to him, and he laid his thin hand over 
hers as it rested on the balcony rail. 

"My little girl," he said, in a tone he 
had not used. "Will you do a great 
kindness to a man who is very un- 
worthy ?" 

"Tell me," she commanded simply. 

"I haven't much longer to live, so the 
doctors say," he said, speaking as casu- 
ally as he had commented on the curve 
in the river, "but I have to keep going as 
long as I can, and I'll be at the other end 
of the world by June, — If I'm not out of 
it altogether." 

The laughter in the girl's face left it 
and a shade of horror showed in her eyes. 
The man felt the response and knew he 
had not been deceived in her. 

"I've tried most of the things by which 
men try to forget remorse," he went on, 
"and now at the last I'm trying to do 
right." 

The teacher's hand shook beneath his, 
and he lifted it away and took from the 
little finger a thin chased ring, passing 
it to Miss Harwood. 

"When you go home," he went on, "I 
want you to take it to — a woman- — , and 
tell her I gave it to you and asked you to 
do this. And will you tell her, too, what 
I have said, that at the last I was trying 
to do right. She is in your own state ; 
it is a strange way of finding a messen- 
ger, but — will you?" 

The girl's eyes met his squarely, but 
they did not waver. 

She leaned toward him and touched 
his coat sleeve. 

"I'm so sorry," she said gently. "Of 
course, I do not understand, but, oh, I 
wish it were different. Isn't there any 
other word for me to take to your — your 
sweetheart ?" 

"My wife," he corrected, gravely. 

The girl gave a little start and then 
she rose and put both hands on his shoul- 
ders. He had roused in her that mater- 
nal tenderness which the grief of men 
will always awake in women who are 
worthy. 

"You musn't, you musn't," she pleaded. 
"Go yourself, no matter what you've been 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



or done. You'll get well sooner — with 
her." 

"No, you don't understand,' he said 
after a time. "She has too much to for- 
give. I've sinned — against Heaven and 
against her — and, oh, what's the use!" 

Darkness had fallen, and from a peon 
cabin in the distance came a weird song. 
A native with a fish net was passing, sil- 
houetted against an open lighted door- 
way. 

Miss Harwood had gone back to her 
chair, for the moment frightened at her 
own daring. 

"I have wrecked a life that promised 
much when I gave it to her," he said 
slowly ; 'deliberately wrecked it ; dishon- 
ored the name I asked her to bear ; left 
her years in suspense ; deserted her, dis- 
graced her, — but the ring will tell her 
I repented." 

The soft tropical night mercifully 
shadowed the anguish on his face, and 
Miss Harwood crushed a spray of flow- 
ers in her hand until they gave out a 
curious sickening odor. She lost, in her 
emotion, her identity as Edith Harwood 
and became with the awakening a woman 
pleading the cause of all women to men 
who fail to understand. 

"Oh, believe me," she begged. "It 
will not matter. We women forgive so 
easily. Won't you believe it? There is 
a boat from San Juan tomorrow, and you 
must make it." 

The contagion of her words infected 
him, and he marveled at her persistent 
pleading. 

"Promise me," she pleaded. "Prom- 
ise me that you will go. Take my word 
for it that she will forgive." 

He rose to his feet and took her hands 
in his. 

"My child," he said, "do you realize 



that you are asking me to break the vow 
of years? — here in this forlorn little 
island where some strange fate has 
brought us together." 

A little sob was his answer, and in the 
darkness he knew that she was crying. 
Until now he had not placed significance 
upon the sisterhood of women. Reach- 
ing toward her he took the hand he had 
dropped and found it wet with tears of 
pity for the other and older woman. He 
spoke very gently. 

"I will promise you that I will go, but 
— what awaits me there only God 
knows." 

Beneath her white gown he fancied he 
could hear her heart beating. 

"I'm so glad!" she cried. "Hurry! 
here's the ring!" 

"If I go," he answered, "I must leave 
the ring with you. It will tell you of the 
great hope you have awakened and — if — 
if it is a false hope I will come back for 
it. Goodbye, child." 

The American teacher at Palma Alta 
went into the house and called her 
muchacha. Someway she could not see 
clearly, and an awful loneliness a thous- 
and times more intense than ever before 
came to her. She turned to her monthly 
reports, but the figures repeated them- 
selves and their division gave curious re- 
sults. Despairingly she went to her sleep- 
ing room. 

When she awakened the next day she 
looked at the ring on her hand without 
knowing how it came there. With the 
recollection came the thought that it was 
the hour the "Caracas" sailed for New 
York. 

She stretched out her hand where the 
sunlight streamed upon the band of gold. 

"I wonder," she said to herself, "I 
wonder if he will come for it !" — National 
Home Journal. 









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House and Plans by C. E. Eastman 




Won)e-<p(iildiD 



There is scarce a human heart in the 
universe that does not beat responsive 
to the word "home." Among all peoples 
and tribes in all corners of Christendom, 
home is the sacred spot of love and the 
holiest ties of family life. The heart 
is always turning homeward. It has no 
other true abiding place. The home love 
lies at the bottom of all other affections 
and is the purest and noblest of them all. 
From it spring all great aspirations. 
The happiness of a true home in one's 
childhood colors all of one's after ex- 
istence, both in this world and in the 
next, and the lack of this happiness dark- 
ens one's whole existence. 

A happy home — to be its maker is the 
most divine mission accorded a human 
being. Great gifts are needed by him 
who makes the laws for a people, by the 
one who sways multitudes with his voice 
or pen ; by the interpreter of lofty drama 
or of noble song; by the artist in what- 
ever line ; by the great financier ; by the 
captains of industry wherever found ; but 
a greater meed of honor belongs to the 
maker and the keeper of a happy home, 
to whose inmates it is a harbinger of the 
joy awaiting us all in that home not built 
by hands, eternal in the heavens. In the 
hope of arousing and promoting the am- 
bition of home building and of home 
making, and of thus adding to the sum 
of human happiness in our midland coun- 
try, this number of The Midwestern is 
devoted to subjects pertiining to varied 



interests suggested by the topic "Home 

building." 






THE EXTERNAL HOME 

It varies with different peoples. The 
Esquimaux knows only his hut of ice, 
lined with the skin of the walrus. The 
Chinese love their pagodas. The Fiji 
Islander builds his house of bamboo 
sticks. The Arab lives in his tent. Ma- 
terials and architecture vary with the 
physical conditions of the country and 
the mental cultivation of its residents. 
But to the heart, home means the same 
thing, disregarding externals. 
* * * 

THE HOME-MAKER 

The man may fetch and carry and earn 
the money, but the woman makes the 
home. Her deft hands add the touches 
that give the home look and the home 
comfort. Her appreciation of the sunny 
window, the open fire, the restful chairs 
and all the things that make comfort 
in the home is a God-given gift denied 
to most men. And this is a gift far 
above the price of rubies. A gifted lit- 
erary woman who was also a first-class 
housekeeper was once heard to say 
that she would far rather know 
how to broil a steak than to write 
a poem. Of the two gifts she chose the 
greater. For it is a gift to be a good 
cook, and good cooking is one of the es- 
sentials in ideal home-making. But sue- 




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cessfully supplying the physical needs is 
not the only office of the true home- 
maker. The highest education of all the 
faculties is needed. The true woman will 
be all the better fitted for the duties of 
wife and mother if she is broadened and 
developed intellectually. Every mathe- 
matical problem she has ever solved, ev- 
ery page of Greek she has ever mastered 
go toward better fitting her for her high 
office of home-maker. But the suprem- 
est thing is love — and let it be demon- 
strative. The home without love words 
— without kisses — is a poor home indeed. 
The cleanliness, comfort, wholesome 
food, education and books, none of these 
things are so important as the loving, the 
tender words, the good night kiss, the 
rocking to sleep in father's arms, the love 
light in mother's eyes. 

The chances for the bov or girl who 
is loved during all his childhood are good 
in after life. 

And the parent who plants the seeds 
of love in young hearts reaps a harvest 
of love in return. Blessed be the home- 
maker. 



OWN YOUR HOME 

Everybody can do this in Iowa if he so 
wishes. Many generations of living have 
crystallized sentiment in New England 
so that often a single word or a question 
or comment of few words indicates its 
trend. A common question asked of per- 
sons not well known is, "Does he own 
his home ?'' If this is answered affirma- 
tively, up he goes in the estimation of 
the Yankee questioner who has the pro- 
foundest respect for a "property holder" 
and as profound a contempt for the per- 
petual dweller in flats. The man who 
owns and cares for his own home is in 
fact possessed of virtues unknown to a 
renter and he has a joy all his own that 
cannot be taken away. Tn New England 
the family and the homestead mean much 
more than in the new West, where we 
are just beginning to appreciate making 
a home that shall be handed down to suc- 
cessive generations. 

I have in mind an old house set in the 
midst of a big yard with half an acre of 
garden in the rear. It is on a hillside 
overlooking the beautiful valley of the 
Merrimac. The house has sheltered three 
generations of one family. A big square 
house, built for time, with a large chim- 
ney. Pear and apple trees surround it, 



with a group of pines in front, all nearly 
one hundred years old. 

Everything is generous, from the big 
dining-room to the big kitchen with its 
hard coal range, built in, to last forever. 
Modern improvements have been added 
from time to time. Here is a house to 
which the hearts of a family have turned 
for nearly a hundred years. Here are 
gathered the precious things belonging to 
the members of the last generation, the 
children's toys, books, little chairs, cribs, 
etc. It is a crime to allow the homestead 
to pass out of the family in New Eng- 
land. And this deep-rooted love of the 
home-place is just beginning in the 
West, where homes are being built for 
future generations of the Iowa family. 

At present an unprecedented wave of 
home-building is passing over the state. 
In Des Moines alone, about one hundred 
new houses are being built and in many 
other towns of the state the building is 
proportionately as great. Architects nev- 
er have been so busy. The services of 
the best contractors are in constant de- 
mand. Those who furnish materials are 
taxed to the limit. The orders for in- 
terior finishing and for exterior building 
materials, brick, concrete and lumber are 
of unheard-of proportions. Des Moines 
furnishing establishments are sending 
out to all parts of the state more beauti- 
ful things in draperies, rugs, dining-room 
and library furnishings than ever before 
in their history. 

All of which speaks well for the mid- 
dle West and for Iowa. 



LOCATION 

In choosing a home place, it is a good 
thing to have some idea of the sort of 
spot one wishes, whether a single lot, 
whether down town, or in the suburbs 
and how the house should stand. After 
this point is settled it is more easy to 
confer with a reliable real estate man and 
have him show you the places he has 
which seem to meet your demand. Tn 
Des Moines the members of the Real 
Estate Exchange are commended, be- 
cause their holding's are large and they 
are perfectly familiar with property val- 
ues in Des Moines and Town. There is a 
tendency in Des Moines to go to the 
suburbs, where many beautiful additions 
have been opened during the past year. 

Tn all of these additions, very lovely 
houses are now building. 





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Having chosen the place, next you will 

visit an architect. 

* * * 

THE HOUSE 

With a view to encouraging the spirit 
of home building in the two years of our 
existence, The Midwestern has shown 
many beautiful houses with plans, of 
varying prices. Des Moines is essential- 
ly a home city. All visitors who drive 
about our streets are impressed with the 
many beautiful home places and the ab- 
sence of poor quarters in the city. North 
Des Moines has built up so rapidly dur- 
ing the past ten years that few vacant 
lots are left. University Place is also 
fast filling up. East Des Moines has so 
improved in a decade that it is hardly the 
same place. Perhaps the most remark- 
able development has been west of Twen- 
ty-fifth street in Grand and Ingersoll 
avenues and the cross streets. 

In building a house, of course the man 
with unlimited means can easily pick and 
choose. But the man of moderate means 
may also have a lovely home and the 
really artistic small home is more fre- 
quently seen. From two to four thou- 
sand dollars in the hands of those who 
know will do wonders in the way of 
building. Materials are now at a rea- 
sonable price. The rage for square 
houses passed over Des Moines several 
years ago and left some hideous things 
in its wake. Now more artistic houses 
are being built. A look about the city 
will give inspiration. Many bungalows 
are being planned and several very at- 
tractive ones have been built during the 
season. 

Many architects now publish books of 
house plans which are comparatively in- 
expensive and from which good ideas 
can be gathered. Deliberate forethought 
is advisable in building for it is difficult 
to remedy errors, but nobody can so well 
advise as a competent architect, who adds 
to his own original ideas the value of 

experience. 

* * * 

A FEW ESSENTIALS 

In planning a house, special fore- 
thought should be taken for a few things 
which are often left unconsidered. Al- 
most first in importance is the library. In 
many houses this is an afterthought. It 
is considered that books are a luxury in- 
stead of a necessity and they are not 
counted in at all. Instead of this, the 



library of standard books should come 
first in the family, before any luxuries 
in furnishing. And in building a per- 
manent home, it is well to build in the 
shelves and plan just as much for the 
home of the books as for the other essen- 
tials. If a room specially put apart for 
a library cannot be afforded, the living 
room may very well be lined with book 
shelves. A place for the piano should 
also be considered, and if one has many, 
and valuable pictures, especial care for 
the lighting of the drawing room must 
be taken. 

Another room where much pleasure is 
taken during the long winter evenings is 
the billiard room. This may be in the 
basement or in the attic room, preferably 
the latter, where cozy seats may be built 
in. A big south window filled with vines 
and blooming plants makes the room 
attractive. 

* * * 

THE OPEN FIRE 

Every home should have at least one 
open fire, a big fire place, with andirons 
preferably, but at least a fire place. The 
open fire place is the best possible ven- 
tilator, but aside from this, it is a perfect 
joy to every member of the household. 
With our modern steam heated double 
windowed houses, all the poetry of every 
day life is eliminated as far as possible. 

The quiet evening in the firelight, with 
book or with a guitar, a little song and 
laughter — while the winter storm beats 
without, these are things to fire the young 
heart with dreams that are never quite 
lost no matter what the years may bring. 
Don't leave out the fire place in your new 
home. 

* * * 

THE PORCH 

Northern people are just beginning to 
appreciate the luxury of verandas all 
about the house and they are being built 
on all new houses of any pretentions to 
comfort. An upstairs veranda, curtained 
and screened, is most desirable for those 
who wish to sleep out the year around. 
The lower porch should be screened, and 
with rugs, tables, potted plants, couches 
and easy chairs, can be made the most 
comfortable of all places about the house 
in summer weather. With such a porch 
and an automobile, one need not wish 
for a summer outing. It can be had ev- 
ery day right at home. All furniture es- 
tablishments in Des Moines keep a fine 




Pk.ah or .SE-Conc Fl^oo^,- 



House and Plans by C. E. Eastman 



28 



THE MIDWESTERN 



selection of porch furniture, which may 

be used in the attic room in winter. 
* * * 

THE LAWN 

Even in a small area much pleasure 
may be had in planting a few lovely 
things which take care of themselves 
from year to year. A small yard I saw 
recently had a hedge on three sides of 
hardy hydrangeas. It was four feet high 
and in three months of the year perfect- 
ly gorgeous in full blossom. The front 
of the yard had a low stone wall, two 
feet across the top, which was filled in 
with dirt and planted in blue ageratum, 



which was a mass of bloom the summer 
long. The south wall of the house was 
banked with pink geraniums. The porch 
column was festooned with a wild cle- 
matis, while about the stables a mass of 
peonies in various shades of pink and red 
hid the foundation completely. In plant- 
ing trees, try a few fruit trees, apple, 
pear and cherry. These are just as orna- 
mental as other trees and in a few years 
will supply all the fruit you need. If the 
grounds are larger, a good landscape 
gardener should be consulted, as a mis- 
take in planting would be disastrous to 
the beauty of your place. 




ACa 



in Wi 



isconsi 



in Woods 




House and Plans by C. E. Eastman 




Street View in Waterloo, Iowa 






THE INTERIOR TREATMENT OF HOMES 



C. E. Eastman 




C. E. EASTMAN, Architect 

USUALLY, the most important 
item in the interior handling of 
a residence, from the architect's 
standpoint, after the arguments 
regarding arrangements are de- 
cided, is the kind of wood to be used, and 
how it is to be finished. 

The style of design, of course, should 
be in harmony with the treatment of the 



building. It is not always easy to get 
the best results for the reason that the 
funds available do not always cover the 
cost of the work and material necessary. 

It seems to the writer quite a fortu- 
nate circumstance that Mission or Crafts- 
man styles — much used at this time 
throughout the country — lend themselves 
to artistic expression without excessive 
cost. The fact that yellow pine takes 
dark stain nicely, and has a pleasing ef- 
fect of grain, makes it available for this 
style, and in the dull finishes, expresses, 
to a marked degree, the feeling desired. 

Oak is our best wood for interior fin- 
ish, but is getting to be quite expensive. 
It lends itself to any of the styles and 
can be finished to suit almost all require- 
ments. Where it is to be stained, red 
oak is as valuable as white, and less cost- 
ly. Some beautiful Gothic and Old Eng- 
lish effects are possible with plain sawed 
red oak, with care in staining. 

Good mahogany effects may be had 
by the use of birch stained, for a careful 
handling can scarcely be told from the 
real article, and the result is approxi- 



THE INTERIOR TREATMENT OF HOMES 



31 



mately equal in service. Mahogany and 
white enameled finish express colonial 
designing best, though almost any wood 
can be used quite effectively. 

The Craftsman lines, though very se- 
vere and simple, are good because of 
their direct expression of their purpose, 
and freedom, from diverting fiiligree. 
The Mission style is much akin, but is 
more graceful, because admitting sweep- 
ing curves and when carefully handled, 
produces some sort of the most artistic 
effects to be had, in the opinion of a great 
many people. 

Floors are possibly the hardest part of 
the work in which to secure satisfactory 
results. One can get any finish desired 
on doors, casings, etc., but the floor is 
abused unavoidably and there is no finish 
which will last under the usual wear of 
walking. Possibly the best treatment for 
floors is two or three coats of a good 
floor varnish, with at least two coats of 
wax on, after the varnish is thoroughly 
dry. This puts the floor in condition to 
be kept up by frequent applications of 
wax. 

The fact that a floor does not neces- 
sarily need to be a perfect match to the 
other woodwork, helps some, as long as 
it does not clash in color values. 

In the best work, the furniture should 
be treated as a part of the finished home, 
and should be designed in harmony with 
the architectural style employed. 

This is too costly for the average 
home, but here again the Mission or 
Craftsman styles make possible harmon- 
ious treatment for there is in stock, on 
the market, much furniture in these 
styles, which is good. 

In the later years, there is much great- 
er interest in having the home and its 
furnishing express what good taste the 
owner possesses, and it is all making for 
better and more artistic residences in all 
parts of the country. 

Des Moines is being called "The city 
of beautiful homes," not without reason, 
for there are several fine examples of 



good taste well expressed, in this city. 

An owner should exercise his patience, 
possibly, more at the period of construc- 
tion, just prior to having the finish put 
on, than at any time during the building 
of his home, for if there is moisture 
present, the dry wood is ready to take it 
in, and if it does, and is varnished in this 
condition, the wood will not stay well to 
place, and the result is very unsatisfac- 
tory, and not easily remedied. 

The finish floor should be the last finish 
wood brought into the building, and 
should be thoroughly dry and laid close 
and scraped perfectly smooth. Oak is 
best, but beech is good for almost all 
cases, and much less expensive. Yellow 
pine is cheapest, and makes a good floor 
for the more modest home, as it can be 
stained to meet most requirements. 

One of the later pleasing innovations 
in the interior treatment of houses, is 
the simple handling of the stair case in 
dignified panels, instead of dust catching 
spindles, necessarily a part of an open 
railing. This provides a broad shelf on 
top, on which may be displayed pots of 
plants, or appropriate bric-a-brac. 

The plain cased opening has developed 
into a tasteful low book case, with an 
effective broad opening, over and so 
serves to divide rooms, while giving the 
effect of bigness to a really small house. 

In a large house, the simple opening is 
made very formal, with impressive col- 
umn at either side. 

Some really exquisite fire places are 
produced with neutral toned bricks or 
tiles, with a heavy simple shelf, and dark 
red hearth. 

Dining rooms are being enriched in 
good taste with simple narrow vertical 
panels to the plate rail, with quiet colors 
above the rail, and as field for the 
panels. 

In these, and many other ways, good 
taste is being developed in the more mod- 
est homes, without excessive outlay, and 
the result is very gratifying. 




Residence of George B. Hippee, Grand Avenue 



WHAT TO PLANT FOR A PERMANENT 

HEDGE 

By Ida D. Bennett 



LIN 1 



For a permanent street hedge there is 
nothing finer than the arbor-vitae, with 
its imperishable green summer and win- 
ter ; there are other evergreens which are 
adapted to the purpose — the Norway 
spruce, the Japan cypress, golden Japan 
cypress, English yew, and the hemlock ; 
all these are ever green and far prefer- 
able to the privet which is a deciduous 
shrub, and the osage orange which is an 
abomination when untrimmed, and ugly 
during winter. 

Tt happens sometimes, however, that 
one desires a hedge for the division of 
the grounds, or the boundary-line be- 
tween city lots, which shall be not only 
useful but beautiful during some part 
of the year with bloom. 

In localities where they may be grown 
successfully, the rhododendrons are the 
ideal plants, being both evergreen and, 
during June and July, crowned with a 
wealtii of lovely flowers. Unfortunately, 
they are not altogether hardy : that is, 
they cannot be trusted to grow and bloom 



in all situations ; they are not so much 
affected by the cold of winter as the hot 
sun of summer, and where there is pro- 
tection on the south, and especially on 
the west during a part of the day, they 
may usually be protected sufficiently in 
winter to make their culture practicable. 

They require a deep, rich soil of leaf 
mould and old, well-rotted manure and 
abundance of water all summer, and 
especially when they are setting their 
buds in the fall. 

For an effective bloomer during late 
summer and fall, there is no better decid- 
uous hedge plant than the hydrangea 
paniculata granditlora, and no plant is 
more easily grown. Strong two-year-old 
plants may lie obtained of the florists for 
a reasonable cost — about thirty-five cents 
— that in two or three years will make a 
fine showing. They should be cut back- 
each spring before the leafage starts; 
about two-thirds of the last year's growth 
being removed. They should be planted 
in rich, mellow loam, well-enriched with 



ENT HEDGE 




33 



J. S. Polk Residence on Grand Avenue 



"Id manure and given an abundance of 
water all summer, as unless the water 
supply is abundant the flower panacles 

will be small and inferior. 

The Cydonia Japonica is another very 
hardy hedge plant, which in early spring- 
is covered with a wealth of lovely, rosy- 
crimson bloom, and at that season is very 
beautiful, but cannot compare even then 
with a well-developed hedge of hydran- 
gea. Try a hedge of two dozen plants 
set from five to eight feet apart according 
to size, and between each bush set a 
large clump of triton or red-hot poker 
plant which blooms at about the same 
time — commencing in July and continu- 
ing until hard frost. 

Very beautiful and unusual hedges '] 



may be achieved by the use of the various 
hardy grasses, especially the Erianthus 



Ravennae. This magnificent grass at- 
tains — in full-grown specimens — an alti- 
tude of twelve feet or more, and is 
crowned with great plumes of fluffy, sil- 
very gray. It is perfectly hardy, and the 
tall flower-stalks bend and sway in the 
wind all winter without breaking, and in 
the spring may be burned over, when the 
new growth will quickly start. It may 
be easily raised from seed, started in a 
cold frame and wintered over under its 
protection and planted out in the spring 
where it is to remain. It should have 
the protection of leaves or rough manure 
during winter until the plants have 
grown large and strong — The House 
eautiful. 





Residence of J. B. Marsh, I 700 Ninth St. 



CHILDREN'S DENS 



Children's dens in which little boys 
and girls are permitted to have their min- 
iature abodes unmolested by adult hands 
are delighting to the little folks and 
often very helpful. Some unused room, 
attached or detached from the house, or 
even the garret, furnish ideal locations. 
When their parents or grown friends vis- 
it them in their dens the children take 
exceptional delight in acting the part of 
hosts, and this often is very instructive 
to them. One mother permits her chil- 
dren to cook Sunday night supper in the 
den. They go at it with all the ardor and 
zest of accomplished chafing dish supper 
givers. They plan their menu through- 
out the week and do the marketing them- 
selves. 

The dishes are generally things they 
have learned to make at cooking school, 
but if their knowledge and inexperience 
prove inadequate, the cook lends the ad- 
vice. The den is fitted up with a regu- 
lar cooking school grill, tiny cupboard 
and china closet. An aunt presented 
them a set of blue dishes, and they bor- 
row silver from the diningroom. 

The girls superintend the operations 
and the boys set the table, cut bread, and 
fetch and carry from the kitchen. Until 
the older members of the family knock 



at the door of the den at 6 o'clock they 
have no idea of what their repast is to 
consist. They are welcomed by very 
lively and modern Hebes and Ganymedes 
who give them a supper much more sub- 
stantial than the Olympian feasts, and 
certainly as heartily enjoyed. 

One mother, on the condition that the 
expense should be moderate, gave her 
three boys carte blanche in converting 
? room on the top floor of the house 
into a den. The room in its unredeemed 
condition was big, barren, unfurnished 
with dingy ceiling. The boys looked into 
its possibilities, carefully counted over 
funds and set to work. 

The floor and the woodwork they 
treated to several coats of screen paint 
mixed by the hirlwarc man around the 
corner, and applied with their own vig- 
orous strokes. Red cartridge paper at 
20 cents a roll they selected for the walls 
and Japanese matting they used for rugs. 
These could be easily rolled up and dis- 
posed of if a boxing bout or a wrestling 
mitch was on hand. 

An old nursery lounge covered with 
a bagdad, which had once been the pride 
of the library, made the much-desired 
window seat, and was supplied with 
cushions by interested girl friends of the 




Residence of E. A. Temple on North Ninth Street 



boys. They dragged out a disused dining 
room table from the cellar and reinstated 
it for ping pong. 

Each boy made himself a bookcase for 
his individual collection — child's verses 
of his baby days, Caesar's Gallic War, 
and other school books, and sets of 
Henry Kipling and other favorites. One 
of them was a long, low corner book- 
case, painted white, another hung on the 
wall over the writing desk, and the third 
had its contents protected by Japanese 
curtains. 

From the low molding hung the usual 
array of startling and gaudy posters; 
stolen signs, and pictures of athletes, 
such as delight a bov's heart. A mosaic 
of fencing foils, boxing gloves, fish rods, 
shotguns, a banjo, snake skins, and 
squirrel tails made an effective frieze. 

Another mother stipulated tint in fit- 
ting up their den her children should do 
all of the work themselves, even to the 
makincr of the furniture and the p'ipering 
of walls. 

The boys made working drawings of 



their chairs, tables and bookcases, cal- 
culated their measurements and secured 
their boards from a lumber yard. Put- 
ting them together with hammer and 
nails was a less formidable task than 
would at first appear. Making allow- 
ances for certain crooked and uneven ef- 
fects, the furniture was very presentable. 
They gained a good deal of practical 
knowledge of woods, drawing and fig- 
ures which their mother considered the 
most valuable result of the experiment. 

The girls made dainty scrim curtains, 
embroidered pillows, cushioned window 
seats, and helped paint and upholster. 
One of them studied basket weaving, 
and caned chairs and tabourettes, and 
made Indian waste baskets. Another 
framed all the pictures. 

The mother of a large family of boys 
has had a game closet made in her boys' 
den. There she keeps the collection of 
games, from building blocks to toy 
printing presses, to which aunts and 
uncles are continually contributing. — 
What to Bat. 




ADRIENNE and NANCYBELL 
Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Campbel 



THE FtRRY FOR SHADOWTOWN 



Sway to and fro in the twilight gray, 

This is the ferry for Shadowtown ; 
It always sails at the end of day, 
lust as the darkness closes down. 

Rest, little head, on my shoulder, so; 

A sleepy kiss is the only fare; 
Drifting away from the world we go, 

Baby and i in the rocking-chair. 

See, where the fire-logs glow and spark, 
Glitter the lights of the Shadowland; 

The raining drops on the window, hark! 
Arc ripples lapping upon its strand. 



There, where the mirror is glancing dim, 
A lake lies shimmering;, cool and still ; 

Blossoms are waving ahove its brim, 
Those over there on the window-sill. 

Rock slow, more slow, in the dusky light, 
Silently lower the anchor down; 

1 ten- little passenger, say "Good night!' 
We've reach'd the harbor of Shadow- 
town. 



— Unknown. 





"St. Helens," in Terrace Drive, the Home of Iowa's Poet, Major S. H. M Byers, and Family 



ST. HELENS 



Where winds the little road below 

The stately avenue, 
There is a grassy slope 1 know 

Where 1 would welcome you. 

St, I felens' green leads gently down, 

More fair than any yet, 
A touch of country, yet in town, 

A lawn with elms set. 

The misty hills, the vales between, 

The river winding near; 
I here could not be a lovelier scene 
Save you were with me here. 

Come to me then, beneath the shad 

' )f yonder trees we'll lie, 
<>r walk the violet scented glade 

And see the stream go by. 



We'll watch the fleecy cloudlets rise, 

Like seagulls overhead, 
And think them ships of Paradise 

With sweet souls of the dead. 

Come when the moon falls on the stream 
And builds its bridge of gold, 

And all the place is like a dream, 
( )r fairyland of old. 

Come when the dawn on roseate wings 

Awakes the world anew, 
And every happy bird that sings 

Shall sing its song tor vou. 

And si i 1' igcthcr, you and 1 

Will watch the swallows play, 

Nor little heed how time may By, 
( )r runs the world away. 




River View at the Foot of the Garden Surrounding St. Helens 




SUMMER BY THE SEA 



This is a song of summer by the sea, 
( )f surge-prof undos chanted o'er and 
o'er ; 
( )f ancient wrath and immemorial glee, 
And of the ships that sailed and come 
no more. 

This is a song of summer by the sea, 

( )f half-forgotten runes made long ago 
Of moon-wrought marvel and of mys- 
tery, 



Of glamor — of the glow and after 
glow. 



This is a song of summer by the sea, 
( )f subtleties of change, of strange un- 
rest ; 
( )f dreams unfathomable that form and 
flee 
Like drifts of mist above the ocean's 
breast. 

-Clinton Scollard. 




Another Picture, by F. W. Webster, Showing Major Byers in the Drawing Room 





Hie Famous Fire Place at St. Helens. About which Many a Brilliant Little Crowd has Gathered to 
Enjoy the I lospilality of Major and Mrs. Byers 



42 



THE MIDWESTERN 




Twin Daughters of Dr. Sherbon in Colfax, Iowa 



HOW TO CARE FOR RUGS 

Philip Oster 



Do not sweep new rugs or carpets for 
about two weeks and then not very hard. 
Use medium weight, smooth broom or 
carpet sweeper. Don't shake out rugs as 
this will loosen the ends and make ragged 
edges. 

Oriental rugs should not be swept at 
all. Lay them face down on the grass — 
in inclement weather, on a bed spring — 
and gently tap them with a flat stick of 
one or two inches width. Don't beat 
hard. The dust and dirt will fall to the 
floor or ground, leaving the rug dustless 
and without diminishing the exquisite 
sheen or lustre of the finest antique 
weave. 

All pile fabrics, such as Wiltons, Ax- 
minsters and velvets, will when new, 
sweep off considerable fuzz, small threads 
and loose wool, which is natural with all 
these fabrics. In the last stages of their 
manufacture these fabrics are sheared, 
the shearing falling between the pile, and 
it takes several weeks to sweep it out. 



At no time is this a sign of defect in the 
weave. 

Body Brussels and tapestry Brussels 
rugs and carpets, being a loop weave, 
should be walked on for at least a week 
before the first sweeping. This will set- 
tle the pile and will materially strengthen 
the wearing quality. Should a loose 
thread appear, clip them with the scis- 
sors, but never pull them out. 

To restore and freshen the colors, use 
a soft woolen cloth dipped in ammonia 
water. Soaps and cleaning preparations 
should be avoided, as a majority of them 
contain a certain percentage of lye, 
which improves the looks of the rug very 
much for the time being, but hastens the 
fading and deadening of colors consider- 
ably, often ruining the fabrics. 

When rugs and carpets grow dull and 
dim from dust and colors, apply a sprink- 
ling of dry salt and sweep with a soft 
broom. This will brighten the colors, 
clean the fabric and settle the dust. 



SUMMER CURTAINS 



SUMMER CURTAINS 

Curtain materials come in almost un- 
limited variety. Scrim and swiss — both 
dotted and plain — and madras (there's 
a whole story in madras alone) and a 
hundred new stuffs have come out, each 
in attractive new ways. 

In scrim the French kind is usually 
chosen for old differences of weave, says 
an Eastern paper, which result in plaids 
and squares and stripes (the plaids are 
most popular) of thicker threads, mys- 
teriously brought together. 

Rut plain scrim is used, too, plenty of 
women buying it by the yard and making 
it up, with simply a hem and, perhaps, a 
couple of tucks inside. Or, perhaps, in- 
stead, the hem is hemstitched and edged 
with a rather narrow, coarse mesh lace 
of the same creamy tint characteristic of 
scrim. 

Tf you like briar stitching stitch the 
hems with a contrasting color — not too 
sharp a contrast, but dull Eastern shades 
of blue or green or red. The stitching 
may be done in any one of a dozen ways 
— straight, or in a wavy line, or with two 
lines that wave and cross each other at 
intervals, or in little circles set apart, yet 
near enough to make further stitching of 
the hem unnecessary. 

Swiss — plain or dotted or embroidered, 
ruffled or hemmed, left plain or trimmed 
with rose-printed strips — is as good as 
the day it was first adapted to window 
use, probably better. Rut it belongs to 
bed-rooms. Don't use it for down-stairs 
rooms : madras is better for them. 

Madras curtains show more wonderful 
developments than any one of the other 
stuffs. From the palest of all. with just 
the suggestion of color laid on its delicate 
background (just off white), for bed- 
rooms and down-stairs rooms, to the deep 
kinds, definitely bright with color, for 
den or library, there are a hundred 
changes run mi each degree of color 
depth. 

Leaded glass designs have invaded 

everything in the house-decorating line, 
from the interesting new lamp shades 
down, They're fascinating in madras, 
either in soft, dull colors which brighten 
up when the sun shines through, or in 
alternate blacks of red and blue, thrown 
into more Striking relief by the bars be- 
tween being made of coarse net. 




A Chippendale Chair Often Copied at Present 




Chippendale Table 




THE MIDWESTERN 



Louis XV. Marquelry Chiffonier 

Colored fishnet, with a larger, more 
open mesh, has been made np to serve 
the purpose of screening, without shut- 
ting' out the air. In dining-rooms, when 
the windows of the next-door house are 
unpleasantly near, this new fishnet is the 
best of all stuffs to use. Sometimes, too, 
it is used as drapery over the white sash 
curtains, and some of it is finished with 
a border, made by adapting the design 
and bringing the motifs closer together. 

By the way, sash curtains are always 
the full length of the window — from the 
top to the sill; the half sash length is 
almost never used, even for kitchens. 
There's such an unfinished look about 
them ! 

For the overhangings and upholstery, 
and for odd little portieres there are silk- 
olenes and cretonnes, denims and taffetas, 
all of which wash, in spite of their colors 
— silkolene perhaps less successfully than 
the other three. 

Figured denims are usually a single 
color, the difference being in weave, but 
seeming more in color from the way the 
light strikes those differences. 

Taffeta in upholstery stuffs is a sturdy 
material, about a yard wide, with a little 

dot about an inch apart. It is sometimes 

1 



printed in patterns, something like cret- 
onne patterns, nearly like those of tapes- 
tries, and is as pretty as it is serviceable. 

And cretonnes are more charming, 
however, in prim little designs (by the 
way, small patterns are best liked for 
bedroom hangings this year) or in mold 
arrangements of more gorgeous flowers 
than botanists have yet been able to 
achieve by natural methods. 

Silkolene, of course, as its name would 
imply, copies the designs of draperv 
silks ; and where it can be made to an- 
swer the same purpose, does it at about 
one-sixth the cost. But silkolene should 
always be weighted or slipped on a rod 
in the lower hem as well as at the upper. 
It is too "sleazy" a stuff to hang free, 
and soon gets a bedraggled look. Weight- 
ing it — sewing little iron weights into the 
ower hem — keeps it in good order and 
so makes it last longer. — The House 
Beautiful. 



"HUNTING" RUGS FROM 
PERSIA 

When Sir I 'union Clarke writes for 
the bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum 
— which be docs too rarely — his knowl- 
edge is formulated in a manner invari- 
ably interesting, says the New York Her- 
ald. While largely an array of facts, he 
manages, nevertheless, to give "move- 
ment" to what he writes. There is noth- 
ing pedantic alxwt Sir Purdon Clarke, 
whether answering an interviewer's ques- 
tions, making an after-dinner speech, or 
directing a museum. 

Recently, in announcing the gift !>. 
Alexander Smith Cochran of a so-called 
''hunting" carpet to the museum, the di- 
rector stated that it was a great boon to 
the institution, as the enormous value of 
such examples renders their purchase by 
the museum out of the question. He fol- 
lows this announcement with an article 
in the bulletin. According to this article, 
the finest of these "hunting" carpets 
known belongs to the Emperor of Aus- 
tria, who lent it to the special exhibition 
held in Vienna in i8()T. There arc others 
in the principal European museums and 
large private collections, and the proven- 
ance of several of these have been traced 
to the seraglio of Constantinople, whence 
they were obtained about twenty-five 
/ears ago. The exact locality of their 



PORTIKRES 



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manufacture has not been 4etermined up 
to the present time, although most of ihe 
authorities attribute these sumptuous 

works to the city of Ispahan, and date 
them about the sixteenth century. The 

scheme of decoration very often covers 
the entire field of the carpet with floral 
conventional forms, interspersed with 
trees with wild animals chasing one an- 
other at large. In the center a medallion, 
cither round or lemon-shaped, contains 
seated figures, often surrounding- a small 
fish-pond, the whole of the inclosure rep- 
resenting a conventional Persian Garden. 

Although the nomad trihes of Persia 
and Turkestan weave their carpets, or 
rather traveling rugs, with geometrical 
designs, the court and city dwellers en- 
deavor to represent on the rug surface 
a garden, so that when traveling for pil- 
grimage or hunting, the rug, spread OUt 
in front of the tent, recalls the home gar- 
den, which to every Persian is symbolical 
of the highest form of earthly enjoyment, 
ami when the rug is used in the house 
these hunting scenes recall to them the 
glories of the chase. 

According to measurement, the carpet 
or rug presented by Alexander Smith 
Cochran is 5 feet y l/ > inches by 8 feet .} 
inches, and has a green border, with 
spiral tendrils bearing conventional flow- 
ers, buds, and leaves, among which are 
birds of gay and varied plumage. The 
middle, or field, is likewise covered with 
f iliige and flowers. 



PORTIERES 



I ortieres are practically a part of the 
wall treatment, says Ann Wentworth in 
the Mouse Beautiful, but are seldom 
classed with the permanent features of a 
room, coming under the head of movable 
furnishings. Portieres and curtains are 
kindred subjects and are usually selected 
after the wall-covering is in place. Por- 
tieres have their use. but it may be trulv 
Said that they have in the prist received 
an undue consideration. Their original 
purpose was to serve as a protection from 

draughts, not to conceal ugh w Iwork 

nor to separate two conflicting wall 
treatments one from (be other. Often 
the portiere was made a convenient 
makeshift to conceal defects which had 
little excuse for existing. As a purel) 
ornamental feature it was always out ol 




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its element, and as such it has now lo.,t 
prestige. 

In that unfortunate era of our decora- 
tive art, sometimes termed the "gilded 
rolling pin," rooms were painfully lie- 
draped. Every mantel was concealed, 
every table hidden, even picture frames 
had their outlines softened by a "drape" 
or "throw" of some kind. Doors natur- 
ally were concealed as much as possible 
and great ingenuity was expended on the 
hangings. Windows and doors were 
both overlaid by hangings of canton ll.au 
nel. embroidered mummy cloth, and other 
materials of which the rising generation 
is happily ignorant. 

Yet people wondered why the then 
present generation was not as robust as 
> previous one. The rial wonder is till': 
the people survived at all in rooms as 
POOrly lighted and ventilated as were 
these he-curtained and he-draped places. 
A reaction against all this drapery gave 



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us the curtainless window and the un- 
draped door. People wdio had used 
Paisley shawls as portieres converted 
them into piano covers, until taste de- 
creed the coverless piano. 

Draperies undoubtedly have theii 
place, but their use must be founded on a 



real need. We are now living in the era 
of the useful, having passed the age of 
the purely ornamental. That the "bare" 
room may be carried to extremes is un- 
doubtedly true. It is a discriminating 
person who discovers the golden mean 
between the over-done and the under 







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Beautiful Lodge in Eastern Country Place 



sne room. Thanks to the architects, it 
is no longer necessary to conceal defec- 
tive woodwork, and if the decorator has 
chosen an effective color scheme, it is no 
longer imperative to separate two con- 
flicting wall treatments by means of a 
hanging. 

The portiere has served a useful pur- 
pose in the past, concealing and separ- 
ating where concealment and separation 
should have been unnecessary, but now, 
with better woodwork and better wall 
treatment, it is often a doubtful neces- 
sity. As a purely ornamental feature its 
excuse for existence is slender. There 
is little to say in favor of a portiere just 
as I portiere. If the woodwork of a door 
is well designed it is a pity to mar its 
beauty, and if it is not, a drapery is mere- 
ly a compromise. 

During the past decade a great change 
has taken place in the interior trim of 
houses. There is little to be concealed ; 
in fact, the well-designed woodwork is 
too ornamental to cover. Again, color 
schemes are often so well chosen that a 
house gains in beauty rather than other- 
wise by the vistas which would be im- 
possible if draperies were used. Manv 
houses show portieres at all openings, 
but they are seldom used, except as a 
protection from draughts, or when, for 



instance, a living-room and dining-room 
are connected by a large opening, when, 
for the sake of privacy, a portiere meets 
a definite need. A good deal might be 
said against these large openings and a 
plea set up for the return of the door, 
real doors, not the folding or sliding va- 
riety, but old-fashioned doors with well- 
designed fitments and showing the skil- 
ful treatment which characterizes the 
rest of the trim. This is an architectural 
question, not a decorative one, but archi- 
tecture and interior decoration are sister 
arts, and it is sometimes difficult to draw 
the line. 

There are arguments for and against 
the doorless doorway. The large open- 
ing has marred many small houses and 
has undoubtedly added dignity to dwell- 
ings of a different stamp, but only when 
the color schemes are well handled. 

Where portieres are used often good 
results are gained by matching the walls, 
or if the curtains are in contrast to the 
walls, by matching the curtains. Tt all 
depends on the effect desired: whether 
the draperies are to be made a part of 
the wall treatment, or whether for the 
best decorative effects they are to present 
a decided contrast. 

T know a dining room paneled in white 
where the curtains and portieres are sin- 



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gle hangings of blue brocade. The rug 
is plain Gobelin blue, tbe furniture is 
mahogany, and the fixtures are silver. 
Another room in this house has walls of 
deep ivory, and the draperies are old 
pink, repeating the tones of the several 
oriental rugs. The hall is pure white, 
with hangings of palest yellow. The 
house is large and the entire decorative 
and architectural scheme is exceedingly 
bro-d and simple. 

Where a deep tone is used on the walls 
a textile repeating that color will give an 
effect of harmony. With a figured paper 
the color of the background can be re- 
peated with safety. Occasionally a por- 
t : ere of tapestry proves very successful, 
the colors blending with the scheme ot 
the rn'in ; not old tapestry, as that is too 
valuable to use as a drapery, but a goo:l 
foreisrn or American example of modern 
weaving which can be purchased at a 
nominal sum. 



Portieres for bedrooms form a separate 
topi". Often they are necessary at doors 
leading into hallways, and may, if well 
chosen, add to the comfort of a room. 
Cretonne and chintz, repeating the color 
and pattern of the walls or used in con- 
nection with plain or striped wall-paper, 
are very attractive for door hangings, 
especially if the curtains are of the same 
material. There are charming and end- 
less combinations for bedrooms. 

Where a room has too many doors a 
portiere is often a convenience, but in 
all bedroom schemes the aim should be 
to preserve simplicity. Many draperies 
should be avoided, as they interfere with 
health as well as with the beauty of the 
room. 

In a blue-and-white room, nothing is 
better for draneries than the blue-and- 
white coverlets made bv our grandmoth- 
ers and now successfully revived by var- 
ious arts and crafts societies. 




J. H. WELCH 

Proprietor of the Boston Lunch in Des Moines 
and Other Cities 



A BOON TO THE BUSINESS 

MAN 



Moines has passed through on< 
lottest summers in its history and 



Des 
of the 

many a man who had to be down town 
all day has found an ideal place for a 
quick lunch at the Boston Lunch on 
Sixth Avenue or on East Fifth street. 
One great convenience is that it is always 
ready. If one chooses to lunch at eleven 
or not until two, it is always ready. Many 
persons also want a glass of iced tea or 
milk or a cup of coffee at odd times. 
They can always get it, day or night, av 
any moment. Mr. Welch, the proprie- 
tor, in having personal supervision of his 
places, sees well to it that everything is 
kept constantly in perfect condition. 
And the improvements in the way of an 
enlarged bill of fire, are fully appreciated 
by the public. From "just a bite" to a 
full, square meal, one can get it to his 
perfect satisfaction at the Roston Lunch. 



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N. T. GUERNSEY 
Successful Des Moines Attorney 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



Till 1 ', publicity now being given 
the public service corporations 
appears to be bringing them in 
ti > el' >ser relations with the pub- 
lic. The tin ire of it the less 
friction there will be between them, yet 
there is, and ever will be those who 

stand on the street corners and deride 
and criticize a corporation -even aCCUS 
ing thriii of extortion and robbery, de- 
spite the fact that the corporation lias 
never been able to secure a dollar for a 
dividend to those whose money is invest 
ed therein; that no extravagant salaries 

in paid tn the officers, and that none of 
suddenly rich 



leads the writer hereof to a feature of 
the publicity movement which has not 
been sent out, to-wit : their capitalization 
as a basis for their taxation and regula- 
tion, upon the theory that the interest of 
the corporation is always antagonistic l<> 
that of the people — that it is to pay in- 
teresl on bonds, or to pay dividends. The 
history and records of the public service 
corporations of Des Moines will unques- 
tionably show that to them such a theory 

would not apply. 

Several important factors seem to be 
lost to view in considering this subject. 
There is progress and improvement 

' ieh involves the expenditure of 



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large sums of money, for much of which 
there is little or no remuneration. Take 
the street railway, or the electric light 
plant. Since their first inception they 
have practically been rebuilt several 
times, and with each change, the old 
thrown into the scrap heap. The wonder 
is, how they have kept pace with the 
developments they have made ; how the 
street car company can give the people 
the comfort, convenience and rapid tran- 
sit in commodious, double-truck cars a 
distance of eight miles for the same fare 
that was paid for eight blocks in horse- 
car days. 

There is another phase in this publicity 
movement which is largely overlooked. 
In the public mind generally, is the im- 
pression that the franchise of a corpora- 
tion is one of its most valuable assets — 
more valuable than its physical property, 
therefore the implied right to add to the 
squeeze on its rates, especially in a city 
where there is no competition. There is 
in every such community a class of re- 
formers who desire to keep in the public 
eye as defenders of public rights, and 
protectors against the aggression of 
monopolies, by harassing and antagon- 
izing corporations. 

The franchise of a corporation has 
very little relation to the physical value 
of a business. There are many things 
which are a part of the development of 
the physical value of a property that 
never appears in an inventory of it, to- 
wit : depreciation of material ; engineer- 
ing and supervision ; cost of excesses 
over estimate ; legal expenses ; insurance, 
and interest on money while bir lding ; 
excess cost of building by piecemeal ; 
cost of organization ; unforseen delays 
causing loss prior to actual operation ; 
loss in operation prior to earning ex- 
penses ; banking expenses ; cost of de- 
velopment, and the cost of material 
thrown into the scrap heap to give place 
to new inventions and improvements, the 
latter often in anticipation of the needs 
of the community. 

STREET CARS 

The recent installment of the pay-as- 
you-enter car and the fare collecting de- 
vice seems to be growing in favor. The 
broad, wide, open platform responds to 
the American idea of liberty in opposi- 
tion to the gates, suggestive of being 
cabined, cribbed, confined — locked in, 



notwithstanding the purpose of their use, 
a public safeguard. 

Now that the gates are off, comes the 
increased liability to accidents in getting 
on and off a car. To get on and off a 
moving car safely requires long practice, 
which is acquired only by railway em- 
ployes. An old-time conductor says : 

"Never attempt to get on or off a car 
when it is moving; let it come to a dead 
stop. 

"Never step from a car backward, for 
if the motorman should inadvertently 
move the car you would be thrown to the 
ground and seriously hurt — probably 
thrown under the wheels. Women are 
the worst of all to take that risk, and it 
is only a question of time and they will 
pay the penalty. The safest way is, with 
the left foot on the lower step, face to- 
ward the front end of the car, step off 
sideways, swinging the body slightly 
rearward. That will prevent being 
thrown down should the car move as 
you step off. 

"Never attempt to get on a moving 
car by grabbing the rear hand rail of the 
platform, for a misstep will land you 
under the wheels. 

"When getting on a car, seize the hand 
rail at the right hand, for safety, espe- 
cially if a person is aged or corpulent. 
If the left hand rail is seized instead, and 
the car should start, you would be thrown 
to the ground, and probably under the 
wheels. 

"Never get off a car and pass around 
the rear of it to cross the street without 
looking in every direction for approach- 
ing automobiles, teams, or other cars. 
On double track lines it frequently hap- 
pens that cars meet at street crossings, 
hence the need of care in getting off a 
car at the crossings where there is a dou- 
ble track. 

"Small children should be taught to 
keep away from the street car tracks, for 
they are so impulsive when at play they 
forget all danger. 



TO MOTORMEN 

When passing a standing car the 
gong must be sounded, and your 
car brought under complete con- 
trol. 

Before you pass the standing car, 
always have a sharp lookout for 
passengers crossing the street be- 
hind the standing car. 



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ie company do all they can to pre- 
vent accidents, but they cannot avoid the 
recklessness of people who exercise no 
care to protect themselves. 

Special effort is made to secure men 
best adapted to the service which is a 
trying: one, requiring skill, patience, cour- 
tesy, integrity, promptness and sobriety. 
Honor stripes are given upon the coat 
sleeves to denote efficiency and years ol 
service. There are men who have been 
in the employ of the company, three of 
them, John Hamilton. John Hanson, and 
Joe Nelson, since the cars were drawn by 
a pair of mules. They are all motormen, 
a service requiring skill, ability to keep 
the mouth decorously closed against the 
loquacity of passengers; to "keep a level 
head" in cases of sudden emergency ; 
avoid the possibility of accidents, and to 
make schedule time against the most ad- 
verse circumstances. Rulletins of orders 
and instructions are issued and posted 
from time to time, and also recorded in a 
book which every motorman and conduc- 
tor is required to read and thereto affix 
his signature, as evidence that he has 
read the order. A sample of one is given 
herewith. 

Accidents are inevitable where people 
are getting on and off cars a thousand 
times a day; when vehicle drivers per- 
sistently use the car track instead of the 
brick pavement; when automobile driv- 
ers go rushing recklessly through the 
streets at crossings. Familiarity with 
rapiil transit breeds carelessness, women 
become forgetful, and children notorious- 
ly so. Drivers will cross intersecting 



streets, or come out of an alley at great 
speed without a thought of a possible 
approach of a car, or the possibility of 
the motorman to prevent a collision, 
should one occur. 

The automatic fare collector seems to 
be gaining in favor with the public as 
well as the conductors. It avoids all the 
friction between the conductors and the 
company cashiers so frequent with the 
use of the old registers, for when the au- 
tomatic grips the nickle it registers the 
fare and the conductor has no further 
care as to its correctness or reliability. 
It also saves him considerable time in 
making up his trip reports, and avoids 
the inconvenience and annoyance experi- 
enced in a crowded car from the reaching 
over the heads and shoulders of passen- 
gers to pull the register cord, sometimes 
knocking off, or upsetting a woman's 
hat, than which nothing will so quickly 
upset her good nature and excite her 
anathenas. 

The management suggests that the 
people can very materially aid them in 
improving the service and shortening the 
time of trips if they will have the nickle 
ready for the little "gripper" when pre- 
sented, and also be ready to leave a car 
when it stops for them. To hold a car 
for a person to gather an armful of bun- 
dles, bid goodbye to a score of friends, 
kiss somebody's baby, and walk the 
length of the car, requires time, which if 
done by half a dozen persons, and re- 
peated at a dozen stops of a trip, throws 
the car out of its schedule, and delays 
the traffic generally. 




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THE MIDWESTERN 






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House Run by Electricity 

EDISON LIGHT COMPANY 



The illustration here given is that of 
an ideal house — the house of tomorrow — 
recently completed in Carrollton, 111., 
without a chimney, without a furnace, 
without gas. It is thirty-four by thirty- 
two feet, two stories high, with attic and 
basement. The principal building ma- 
terial is concrete, the blocks being molded 
on the spot as needed. The floors arc 



hardwood. The interior is finished in 
plaster and oak, thus requiring but little 
wood in construction. The style of ar- 
chitecture is of the Mission type, plain 
but substantial and roomy. It is fronted 
with a broad porch. The cost was less 
than $3,500. 

It is heated by steam from a central 
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OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



electric light plants or factories, is car- 
ried to the house by underground pipes, 
entering the house through the basement, 

and piped to radiators in rooms, as from 
an ordinary steam heater. To furnish 
hot water for bathrooms, near the ceiling 
in the bathroom is a water tank in which 
is a coil of pipe kept hot by steam. This 
tank also supplies the lavatories in the 
rooms with hot water. The house is also 
wired for electrical heat in case of fail- 
ure of the steam supply, and for lighting. 
On entering the kitchen the visitor 
sees no stove, no range, no visible signs 
(if cooking. ( )n one side of the room ap- 
pears to be an oaken sideboard built into 
the wall, which in fact is one of the new 
electric stoves. The back of it is a switch- 
hoard on which wires are strung to each 
utensil used on the stove. A turn of the 
switch and the tea kettle begins to sing. 
The moving of a plug and the frving pan, 
griddle, broiler, vegetable cooker, etc., 
are all put to work preparing a meal. 
Beside the cabinet is an oven in which 
the choicest roast can be cooked in less 
time than usually required with a coal 
fire. The meal over, remove a plug ami 
the electric Hat iron is ready for busi- 
ness, and all this without the heat, odor 
and discomfort of the old way. So neat- 
ly and cleanly are the meals cooked in 
this house, it is only necessary to attach 



a cord to a lamp socket overhead and the 
tea, coffee, and toast can lie prepared on 
the dining-room table without soiling the 
napery. 

The cost of cooking meals for the fam- 
ily of five in this house, is estimated to 
be less than $3.50 per month. 

The bathrooms, lavatories and water 
closets are fitted with the latest sanitary 
appliances, and connected with the sew- 
erage of the town. Altogether, it may 
be said to be a type of the Twentieth 
Century house, and suggestive to pros- 
pective home builders in Des Moines. 

While the "ideal house" may not be in 
possession, if your house is electric wired 
the Edison Company will install any or 
all of the following appliances at actual 
cost : 

Laundry Irons — Cost $3.75, cost to op- 
erate 4 to S cents per hour. 

Tailor Irons — Cost $8.50 to $11.00. 
Cost to operate 3 to 5 cents per hour. 

Coffee Percolator — Cost $6.00 to 
$10.00. To operate for six cups of cof- 
fee. 4-10 of a cent. 

Chafing Dish — Cost $6.50. Cost to op- 
erate 2 4-10 cents per hour. 

Water Heater— Cost $3.00 to $4.50. 
To boil 1 quart of water 1-4 of a cent. 

Stove — Cost $5.00. To operate per 
lour, 2 to 3 cents. 




night showing fine lighting by Edison Light Co 



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Picture taken in the rain after night showing lighting by Edison Light Co. 






Broiler — Cost $6.50. To broil a com- 
mon sized steak, I cent. 

Washing Machine — Cost to operate a 
machine and wringer by a small electric 
motor, 1 cent per hour. 

Sewing Machine — Cost to operate by 
small electric motor, 1-2 cent per hour. 

In 1907 the company made a reduction 
of rates equal to 40 per cent. If the 
house is wired they will install service, 
meter, and lamps free of charge, and ex- 
change lamps when burned out free of 
charge. 



A notable peculiarity of electric light- 
ing is that the more hours in a day it is 
used the less is the cost per hour, that is 
to say, all light used in business houses 
after eighty minutes goes at half price; 
in residences after twenty-seven min- 
utes. 

Builders of houses should wire them 
for electric use as an investment, not as 
an expense. The more completely it is 
done, the nearer the house approaches an 
ideal one and more certain to secure 
purchaser. 



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OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 
DES MOINES GAS COMPANY 



5.5 



The Des Moines Gas Company seems 
to be getting along very complacently 
during the public service agitation. Its 
officers are apparently content with the 
situation and the treatment of the pub- 
lic. They are constantly looking for new 
and improved devices for lighting and 
heating, and working out methods for 
better and more satisfactory service, con- 
scious that their business is an impor- 
tant factor in the growth and prosperity 
of the city, and somewhat paradoxical 
it is, for the larger the city grows and 
increases in population, the more their 
rates under the sliding scale, come down. 
It is de facto, the only utility corporation 
in the city exercising its utmost energies, 
toward a result which will reduce its own 
remuneration. 

It invites especial attention to the new 
inverted Reflex lamp of one hundred 
candle power, consuming but three and 
one-half cubic feet of gas per hour, at a 
cost of one-third cent per hour. It 
throws all the light downward without 
shadow or glare. Renders a soft, mel- 
low glow of highly diffused light, pleas- 
ant and restful to the eye. It is the ideal 
residence lamp, the company claiming 
that it excels and supplants electricity at 
half the cost. It is provided with a by- 
pass for j very small flame, or pilot light 
with which the lamp can be lighted by 
simply pulling down a chain. 

Another specialty is the Welsbach Arc 
Lamp for stores, halls, club rooms, bil- 
liard rooms, streets and residences. Tt 
has four burners either one of which or 
all four may be used as required, the cost 
not exceeding two cents per hour for the 
four burners, week in and week out. Tt 
yives a 550 candle power light, brilliant, 
but closely resembling sunlight, and is a 
business bringer to a store, for it makes 
the distinguishing of colors as easy as 
by sunlight. A feature of this lamp is 
the bypass cock, regulated by a system 
of rings on a chain. All the burners are 
extinguished by pulling the right hand 
ring — all burners are lighted by pulling 
the left hand ring — pull the center ring 
and all burners are extinguished except 
one, which serves as a night light. The 
pilot light burns less than one fi«>t of 
gas per twenty-four hours. 

There are 447 wavs for using gas, 
hence 447 ways for obtaining comfort in 
the home, and convenience, efficiency, 




Beautiful Welsbach Light 

economy, and reliability in doing the 
work of the shop or the factory. 

One of the 447 ways is the use of the 
gas engine, specially adapted for small 
factories requiring less than one hundred 
horsepower. The gas company is pre- 
pared to install the latest improved gas 
engines with which power can be devel- 
oped for two cents per hour per horse 
power. No engineer is required. Just 
start the engine in the morning, keep the 
oil cups full and it will run without at- 
tention. Over fifty are in use in Del 
Moines now, giving perfect satisfaction. 



THE MIDWESTERN 



They range from two to thirty horse- 
power. It is considered cheaper to in- 
stall a gas engine as the cost is about 
one-half that of a steam engine and boil- 



er. The saving of the expense of an 
engineer and fireman would pay the cost 
of all gas used by the gas engine. 




DES MOINES WATER WORKS COMPANY 



Eight thousand one hundred and forty- 
six is the record of deaths in a single 
month from cholera in the noted epi- 
demic in Hamburg, Germany, in 1892. 
The river Elbe drains a region having 
between six and seven million inhabi- 
tants. The sewage of that vast popula- 
tion emptied into the river, which was 
pumped directly to the city water mains 
for the use 1 if citizens without purifica- 
tion. 



Only three miles below Hamburg is 
the city of Altona. It is about one-third 
the size of Hamburg. It takes its water 
supply from the Elbe at a point below 
that at which the sewage of both cities 
is discharged. The conditions were vast- 
ly more favorable for a worse epidemic 
than in Hamburg yet it escaped with a 
few isolated cases of cholera. Why ? The 
Altona water was sand filtered. 

Typhoid fever is usually considered a 









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57 



water borne disease, but it is an erron- 
eous conclusion. It is due to infection 
from a specific bacteria which may be 
conveyed in many ways : 

i. The shallow well, and that abom- 
ination, the privy vault. 

2. The "household guest" that never 
washes its feet, the common house fly, 
ever busy, and certain carrier to a re- 
markable degree, disease germs to the 
kitchen, dining room, and family food 
from the most filthy sources. 

3. The milk, which may have been 
polluted. 

4. From unclean sources. 

With these as safeguards against, as 
is the public water supply, the death rate 
from Typhoid in Des Moines would have 
no place on the records. 

The quality of the water furnished by 
Des Moines is set forth every month by 
the analysis of Prof. Floyd Davis. The 
following is the report of the examina- 
tion made August 19th, of water taken 
from 2835 Brattleboro avenue : 

Parts per 
1 ,000,000 

Total solids 240,000 

*Loss on Ignition 72,000 

Chlorine 2,000 

Free Ammonia 065 

Albuminoid Ammonia 140 

Oxygen Consumed (Kubel) 3.200 

Nitrogen in Nitrites Strong trace 

Nitrogen in Nitrates 300 

*Considerable blackening. Some odor. 
Bacteria per Cubic Centimeter. . . 280 

Species of Bacteria 4 

Liquifying Bacteria per Cubic 

Centimeter 32 

No Colon Bacilli. 

For comparison, the following is the 
standard of permissible potable water 
fixed by the State Board of Health after 
several years' observation and investiga- 
tion. The figures given are the maxi- 
mum limit of impurity permissible : 



Parts per 
1,000,000 

Total solids 600,000 

Loss on Ignition Qualitative 

Chlorine 8.000 

Free Ammonia 080 

Albuminoid Ammonia 150 

Nitrogen in Nitrites Trace 

Nitrogen in Nitrates 1.000 

Permissible water is deemed to be that 
which can be used constantly for domes- 
tic purposes without danger of injurious 
results. 

While the analysis made by Prof. Dav- 
is on the 19th ult., shows considerable 
change from that of the prior month, it 
it not deleterious to the public health, 
and is probably the effect of heavy rains 
up the river. Both reports show the 
water is far better than the standard 
fixed by the State Bo^rd of Health. 
There is taken into the human stomach 
at every meal, that planted in the food 
by the house fly which is more danger* 
ous to health than any constituent of the 
city water. 

The function of the water works does 
not end, however, with the conservation 
of the public health. There is another, a 
very important one — the meeting of an 
emergency at a critical moment — to pre- 
vent an appalling conflagration and de- 
struction of property. Has the conflag- 
ration which in May, 1869, swept away 
nearly the entire north side of Walnut 
street from Third to Fourth, been for- 
gotten? The water works was not then 
in existence, but since it has been in op- 
eration it has been equal to any emer- 
gency, and the city has escaped a serious 
loss by fire. How great the value there- 
by cannot be computed, but there have 
been many times when the conditions 
were more favorable for a holocaust than 
in the fire of May, 1869, notably when 
the Grand Opera House was burned. 



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C. A. Watrous, Architect 
"Waldruhe," Residence of J. D. Whisenand, Centre Drive 

SAWYER & WATROUS, ARCHITECTS 






. Of the newer architect firms in the 
middle West, none has attracted a great- 
er prominence ranking with the best in 
the country, than the firm of Sawyer & 
Watrous, established in Des Moines three 
years since. At present Mr. Watrous is 
alone, expecting soon to be joined by Mr. 
Sawyer, at present in Boston. Charlie 
Watrous, as he is familiarly known in 



Des Moines and Iowa, is a native Des 
Moines boy, reared and educated in his 
boyhood home. Later he went to Boston 
to the Institute of Technology where he 
graduated with distinction. He spent 
two years in the office of Mr. Sawyer in 
Boston and altogether eight years in 
1 '.' iston and New York before opening up 
offices in Des Moines. Much of his work 




C. A. Watrous. Architect 

South End of Living Room in the J. D. Whisenand Home 




Corner of Living Room, Looking into Ha 



C A Wairous. Archilect 
n the J. D. Whisenand Home 



eastern cities was steel construction 
work and he was draughtsman for some 
of the biggest things of that kind ever 
[i me in America. 

Mr. Sawyer is an artist and a poet in 
his line as well as a highly and thorough- 
ly trained architect. He is also a "Tech" 
graduate. His standing among Eastern 
architects is of the very highest and his 
coming to Iowa means much for the fu- 
ture building in the state. 

Mr. Watrous is an enthusiast in regard 
to the possibilities for Des Moines. He 
is also anxious to promote the use of re- 
inforced concrete for building purposes. 






lis firm will have the landscape wo 
also in charge, maintaining that the 

house should tit into the surroundings. 
Mr. Watrous is especially adapted to this 
part of the work, having made a special- 
ty of building to suit the grounds, and 
his work in Eastern cities has given him 
the experience needed for this important 
feature. 

The Midwestern bespeaks for this firm 
the most generous treatment at the hands 
of the Iowa public. 1 Tieir success is de- 
served and Des Moines is certainly for- 
tunate in adding them to its list of build- 
ers. 




West Enu 1 of South Porch in the J 



C. A. Watroui. Architect 
D. Whinenand Hon.. 



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WALL PAPER BEAUTIES FOR 1909 



There seems to be no limit to the beau- 
tiful colorings, exquisite designs, and 
profoundly delightful effects that can be 
produced in wall paper. 

Miss Forney, of The Midwestern 
dropped into the Boody-Holland & New 
Co.'s store at 608-IO Locust street and 
put this question to Mr. Boody, the pres- 
ident : 

"What will I )es Moines homes have 
on (heir walls in [909 in the way of high 
class decorations?" 

IIk answer was about as follows: 

"The Robert Graves Company and the 
nicdhill Wall Taper Company, of New 
York, are the recognized high class wall 
hanging manufacturers on the American 
ci mtinent. 

"Being the largest decorators and buy- 
ers in ibis line west of Chicago we con- 
trol the output of these two high grade 
factories, We arc just now buying our 

lines for [909, and some of the special 
features thai will be shown, in cham- 
bers, are the trills and crown floral ef- 
fects. In warm grays, delightfully pale 
blues ami greens, with barred ceilings. 
For living rooms the Sherwood panels 



for side walls in colors that were never 
before produced. 

"A great many browns, greens, tans. 

yellows and orange effects will be offered. 
"Special attention will be given to the 
hanging of cut friezes. We are prepar- 
ing to furnish wall decorations in paper. 
for from $8.00 to $15.00 per room that 
will excel a free hand fresco painter's 
work that costs $50.00 to $150.00 per 
room. 

"We have purchased an electric ma- 
chine with which to cut out our friezes 
and we will delight Des .Moines with 
something uniquely beautiful. 

"To make room for these goods, we 
have seventy-six thousand rolls of wall 
paper that we are selling out. up to the 
twentieth of October on which, we will 
guarantee a saving of from 40 to 00 iter 

Cent. 

"In spite of the presidential campaign, 
our business is showing an increase over 
last year, which was the biggest year we 
had.' 

"Boody's merit labor system is largely 
accountable for litis increase." 





OUR DES MOINES ARCHITECTS 



l'<> no class of men docs Des Moines 
owe more of her beauty and attractive- 
ness as a home city than to the architects 
who have planned our houses. Their 
work is not seen in Des Moines alone, 
hut each of them has had his share in 
thi' building all over Iowa and the middle 
West. The Midwestern has made a spe- 
cialty of showing Des Moines houses, be- 
lieving that to show the houses of the 
people is one of the best advertisements 
a town can have. Many letters have 
come to us from distant cities, asking for 
the names of the various architects whose 
houses have been shown. ( >ur architects 
an- die best i n the middle West and will 
i ompare with any the world over. They 
are Wetherell & Gage, Proudfool & 

Bird, l.iebbe, Xourse & RasmUSSen, C, E. 

nan. Fred Kemp, h >hn I '. Barton, 



Watrous & Sawyer and ( ). < ). Smith. 
Any person in or out of Des Moines who 
intends building will make no mistake in 
calling upon any one of them. They are 
broadminded and progressive men and 
loyal citizens of Des Moines, who really 
care for the city as their home, and not 
merely for the business they can gef here. 
The attention of our readers is especial- 
ly called to the cards of these linns else- 
where in this magazine. 



Much time is wasted in lamenting the 
evil condition of the world, but the 
World is not made belter by such Ian o 1 1 
tation. Consider the brightness and the 
joy of living. When we consider things 
as they really are there is every reason to 
be happ) . lo be joyful. 

i harles I In 'die Patterson. 




Library in the James G. Berryhill Home 



MY JOY SONG 



] live in a world of gladness, 
I live in a world of light, 
I think not a thought of sadness, 
I scr not a shade of night. 
The joy hells are ringing, 
My happy heart's singing, 
And sweet notes are winging 
Their glad way to you, to you! 

My life is attuned to the music 
( if joy that 1 freely give ; 

If I sing, I never can lose it — 
This musi ■ that help- me to live. 
The joy hells are ringing, 



My happy heart's singing, 
And sweet notes are winging 
Their glad way to you, to you! 

I sing of a life of beauty, 

Of grace and strength and youth, 
Whose watchwords are love and duty 
Ami courage and faith and truth. 
The joy hells are ringing, 
My happy heart's singing, 
And sweet notes are winging 
Their glad way to you, to you! 

— Helen Van-Anderson. 



TWO WORLDS 



A world of ceaseless toil and strife, 
With vast extremes of death and life — 
Passions that throb with love or hate. 
This is the world of Men. 



A mighty world where Thought is king. 
With words Forever blossoming, — 

A realm no discord ever seeks. 
Peopled with silence that yet speaks, — 
This is the world of Books, 







I HAT which encourages refinement, promotes interest in good 
literature, adds beauty to home environment, must naturally ap- 
peal to those who exercise careful judgment in the selection of library 
furnishings. For this reason we invite your inspection of our stock °f 
£i| 1 *\a^' * 1 "Elastic" bookcases. We carry 

*J lOt>C~WC VX) X CKC twenty-five different styles and finishes. 
Call and see them or send for Catalogue No. 109. 

BAKER-TRISLER COMPANY 
510 Walnut Street Des Moines, Iowa 





Residence of N. T. Guernsey on Thirty-Seventh Street. 

A NEW TYPE IN HOUSEBUILDING 
IN DES MOINES 



Whatever may be said of the ultimate 
results of Grecian philosophy, it is cer- 
tain that the Greek love for beauty and 
their intelligent cultivation of it in all 
ways has left a permanent influence for 
good upon the world. And whenever we 
turn from barbarian customs to the sim- 
plicity and splendor of the Greek cult 
we prove again that in all ages of the 
world the supreme type approaching 
nearest to beauty was reached by the 
Greeks. It perhaps has been left to us 
of a new civilization to prove that love- 
liness is as easy to attain as ugliness, and 
that it all lies in the spiritual perception 
of him who creates. 

In no avenue of human life is this 
more plainly perceptible than in the mak- 
ing of a home. Beauty in the home is as 
essential as food. It is in fact a daily 
food for the higher perceptions and when 
one pauses to consider the homes where 
beauty is absolutely lacking and worse 
than that, where the most torturing in- 



harmony of furnishing rules, one big rea 
son for the spiritual perversion of the 
race is discovered. 

Every reader of this page must have 
in mind splendid homes, where money 
has been lavished, which actually give 
one a momentary nightmare, because of 
the inharmony of colors, materials and 
general furnishings. Again you will re- 
member some simple house, costing but 
a few thousands, which it is a joy to 
enter. 

One reason for the hideous houses, in- 
side and out, which are so common, is 
that the owner is totally inexperienced in 
the art of building and furnishing, but 
because it is his money, thinks he must 
dictate. What is needed is an experi- 
enced furnisher to select, to decorate and 
to place everything in the house. Such 
a person must be an artist ; and the art- 
ist who adds experience to his gift will 
work wonders in the simplest house. Des 
Moines is more than fortunate in having 



The 

MARTIN - CULBERTSON 
COMPANY 

Furnish material of the highest grades for Exteriors and 




Interiors in beautiful homes 
also for banks, stores and offices 

This company furnished recently the fine interior work on the 
following handsome residences and buildings : 



JOHN COWNIE 
N. T. GUERNSEY 
FLEMING BUILDING 



D. S. CHAMBERLAIN 
DRAKE APARTMENTS 

FLYNN BUILDING 



Eighth and Vine Streets 
Des Moines, Iowa 



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call for estimates 



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Hall in the N. T. Guernsey Residence 






such an artist in the person of Mr. W. P. 
Darwin, manager of the Orchard-Wil- 
lielm Carpet Company. This company 
replace the Collins-Heaslip Company, 
who have removed from Des Moines. 
Mr. Darwin, who is by nature and edu- 
cation eminently fitted for his work, has 
had experience in every department of 
the making of "the house beautiful." The 
most recent example of his work in Des 
Moines is such a triumph in an esthetic 
sense, that some description of it is given 
here, in connection with illustrations, 
which, however, fall far short of reality 
because of their failure to reproduce the 
wonderful color scheme. 

The home is that of Mr. and Mrs. N. 
T. Guernsey, recently built on Thirty- 
ninth street. 

Mrs. Guernsey and Mr. Darwin agreed 
perfectly in regard to the color scheme, 
which is of such exquisite harmony that 
the house is like a poem, complete and 
without a jarring note. 



This is the only house in Des Moines 
in which a line of tapestry is carried 
throughout the whole lower floor. The 
walls of the living room are covered with 
a French foliage tapestry, colors shading 
from tan to olives and burnt siennas. 
The rug is plain, made to order and of 
a darker shade of burnt sienna than the 
deepest color in the tapestry. The cur- 
tains are of the old-fashioned silk and 
wool damask of a shade lighter than the 
rug. The ceiling of the room is plain 
olive on canvas. 

The dining room is done in old blue. 
The deep wainscoting is of ivory white. 
The canvas of a special shade of grey 
blue, to harmonize with a lovely culler 
tion of dishes of Mrs. Guernsey's. The 
plain rug is of a shade of blue harmoniz- 
ing perfectly with the walls. A triple 
window is hung with exquisite curtains, 
pleated valences of gray blue French 
gordes, trimmed in a special design 01 
eold eralloons. All the curtains in the 



GOOD AND BETTER 



67 



Modern Types of Artistic 
Door Locks 





If you propose 
you cannot fail to 
be interested in the 
fine line of hard- 
ware we can show 
you. 

No matter what 
the style of arch- 
itecture, we have 
designs that will 
conform; designs 
which are artistic 
and useful, and 
the largest line in 
this city to select 
from. 



build 




If you build to sell, 
or if for any reason you 
want to dispose of your 
home advantageously, it 
is well to have it finished 
with artistic trimmings, 
which cost so little over 
ordinary hardware. 

An important point to 



K be considered by home- 



builders is that the or- 
der for the hardware 
should be placed earl)', 
not waiting till the 
house is ready for the 
trimmings. We are 
agents for the celebrated 
Yale.Sc Towne hardware. 



L. H. KURTZ CO., 312-314 Walnut St. 



house arc hung from German gold cor- 
nices and thrown hack over gold knobs. 

The library is in weathered oak, and 
the walls in Scotch linen tapestry. The 
hangings olive. 

The halls are done in German tapestry 
of a conventionalized Gothic design, 
green held with figures in dull tans. The 
rich hangings are of a shade of green 
matching the green on the walls. The 
oriental rugs in the halls arc very beauti- 
ful and in harmony with the walls and 
draperies. Especial rugs were made for 
the colonial stairway, giving an effect very 
unusual and charming. The bedrooms 
are done in chintzes and have Martha 
Washington rugs. In many ways this 
lovely home stands alone in Des Moines. 
Its simplicity would not please a barbar- 
ian taste. But the cultivated eye, appre- 
ciative of true beauty, could not fail to be 
charmed. What Mr. Darwin has done 
here, could he done in any house, no mat- 
ter how grand or how simple. To repeat. 
it lies all in the spiritual perception of 
beauty and of harmony. 



GOOD AND BETTER 

A father sat by a chimney-post, 
( )n a winter's day enjoying a roast, 
By his side a maiden young and fair, 
A girl with a wealth of golden hair ; 
And she teases her father, stern and 

cold, 
With a question of duty trite and old ; 
"Say, father, what shall a maiden do 
When a man of merit comes to woo? 
And, father, wdiat of this pain in my 

breast ? 
Married or single — which is the best?" 

Then the sire of the maiden young and 

fair, 
The girl of the wealth of golden hair, 
lie answers as ever do fathers cold, 
To the question of duty trite and old : 
"She who weddeth keeps God's letter; 
She who weds not doeth better." 
Then meetly answered the maiden fair. 
The girl with the wealth of golden hair 
"I'll keep the sense of the Holy Letter, 
Content to do well without doing better." 




Dining Room in the N. T. Guernsey Home 



FOR EVERY MEMBER OF 
THE FAMILY 

A well known housekeeper in Des 
Moines, was heard recently to say that 
she attributed the perfect health of her 
children to the quality and quantity of 
milk they had drunk during the past 
year, "fused to be afraid of giving my 
children milk to drink." she said, "when 
I had tn buy of a milk wagon, but one 
day 1 read something about the new 
method of pasteurization and of how it 
insured against all germs and any un- 
cleanliness. Then I found tint this meth- 
od was used by the Iowa Dairy Company 
in Des Moines. My problem was solved. 
I tried their milk and cream. The chil- 
dren thrived on it. After a bit we all 
grew so fond of it, that our milk bill got 
to be a pood size. Bui we have had no 
doctor bills. So 1 decided that it did 
us all pood, and we have .all the milk 
we want to drink." 




The Iowa Dairy Company certainly is 
a public benefactor in contributing to the 
health of the families in Des Moines 
Try their pasteurized milk and cream. 



A BUSY CLUB 



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That the Commercial Club of Des 
Moines is a busy organization and car- 
rying- on their offices with energy is in- 
dicated by the following item clipped 
from their monthly bulletin : 

"The Commercial Club received i/x> 
letters during August. There were an- 
swers sent out to 51 letters of inquiry. 
Sixty-five copies of the Des Moines plan 
were mailed and 22 inquiries relating to 
it were answered. Seven hundred and 
five pieces of printed matter were mailed 
out. Twenty-six letters were sent to Des 
Moines business men. giving information 
as lo trade possibilities." 





Living Room in the N. T. Guernsey Home 



// 

Intend- 
ing 
to 
Build 



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twenty-five 

cents 

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of 

inexpensive 

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Plans and photos with costs. $900 to $5,500. Complete working plans from $1.00 up. 
LATEST AND BEST IDEAS. 

/ he C. E. Eastman Co., Architects, Ties Moines, Iowa 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




DR. NELLE NOBLE 
Prominent Des Moines Professional Woman 



Among the many cultivated and inter- 
esting women in Des Moines, both in and 
out of professional life, there are none 
whom it is a greater pleasure to meet 
than Dr. Nelle Noble. An Iowa girl 
coming with her father's family to Des 
Moines from Casey some twelve years 
since, she is in love with her native state 
and has made for herself an enviable 
place in the life of the capital city. 

Dr. Noble is the only professional 
woman who drives her own auto, a Ford 
roadster, and she is an enthusiast on the 
automobile question. Not long since she 
returned from a trip around the world 
with her father, and her fine education 
enabled her to make the most of her op- 
portunities for seeing the world. She is 
a graduate of Drake, and has taken four 
degrees, Ph. P.., A. M., L. L. B., and 
M. D. 

tier first European trip was made in 
1900 and three years ago she began her 
professional work in Des Moines, in 
which she stands in the very front rank. 
Dr. Noble has the nature that makes and 
keeps friends and in the various church 



and society circles in which she has a 
part she is one of the indispensable work- 
ers. As Lady Commander of the Mac- 
cabees, of the L. O. T. M. Chapter, she 
has become widely known in the order. 
Also as an Eastern Star and P. E. O. and 
a prominent Y. W. C. A. worker her 
name is familiar. 

The women of any community are 
proud of their really representative wom- 
en and Dr. Noble, with her enthusiasm 
and energy united to her cultivation and 
personal charm is certainly a high type of 
our representative women. The Midwest- 
ern at no distant day will contain some- 
thing from her pen, reminiscent of her 
recent year of travel. 

This month's Midwestern contains an 
article on the "Why of Decorating," by 
Geo. A. Boody, President of the Boody- 
llolland & New Co. M.'r. Roody, a rec- 
ognized authority, will write articles of 
a similar nature for The Midwestern 
(hiring the coming fall and winter 
months. These articles should be of spe- 
cial interest to the Women's Civ 
Des Moines. 



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Liebbe, Nourse and Rasmussen, Architects 



THE WHY OF DECORATING 



By George A. Boody 



Did you ever stop to think what the 
source is, that gives rise to the motive 
that prompts color harmony, etc., in true 
decorating? All truly good things that 
are done in the world, are measured by 
their success to make life brighter, sweet- 
er, and more worth while. 

This is truer of the motive that pro- 
duces right color harmony, beauty of 
design, and general architectural effect 
in the interior and exterior decorating 
of the home than in anything else in life. 

To make myself clear I will take for 
example a woman, who has a burning 
passion for the beautiful. She has just 
built a new home, and is ready for the 
exterior painting and interior decorating 
and wood finishing. She knows some- 
thing of the modern wood tints, dull fin- 
ishes, colonial effects, etc., as well as the 
modern way of decorating the walls. In- 
stead of accepting the first suggestion 
that is offered to her as to how she should 
beautify her home, she endeavors to the 
very best of her ability to excel her 
friends and neighbors in producing a de- 
lightful interior. Over and over again 
she says to herself, how I would love to 
have something tint will be equal to some 
of the prettiest things T have ever seen 
in this line. 

Now the question is, what is it that 



prompts this aesthetic soul to tension her 
nerves and exert her brain energy to its 
limit ? The answer is, it is that some- 
thing within the soul that loves to have 
physical surroundings that will make for 
cheerfulness, buoyancy of spirit, and as 
a natural result improve the health. That 
is the "worth while" "Why of Decorat- 
ing." 

To show the splendid value of color 
harmony, etc., I will put the proposition 
in a negative nutshell statement: "Any 
good artist can decorate a home so ab- 
surdly out of harmony with the laws of 
nature, and a woman of fine aesthetics, 
so as to actually ruin the health and 
finally drive her to the asylum." This 
is a strong statement, but I speak ad- 
visedly. In conclusion, conceding that 
every home owner of intelligence and 
culture realizes the true value of right 
interior color harmony and contrasts, the 
question is, how can this result be ob- 
tained with the least possible exertion? 
The answer is, tell your individual tastes 
to one who has made a study of this art, 
and has had practice enough to become 
an adept in applying this splendid sci- 
ence. This will probably produce more 
quiet unaccounted for joy and satisfac- 
tion than any other art that reaches the 
family fireside. 




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N furnishing a home, price and 
quality should be given a good 
deal, but not all, consideration. 
As important, more so even, is the 
service your store gives you. You will 
find, for instance, the expert advice and 
suggestions and information of our ex- 
pert salesmen of immeasurable values. 
The vastness and perfect assortment of 
our stock is another important factor in 
the furnishing of homes, resultive in sup- 
plying the exact goods you want and 
need. Withal, you pay no premium for 
any of these advantages more likely, 
choosing this store will prove profitable, 
very, in dollars and cents. ?» *W & !» 



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73 




Liebbe, Nourse and Rasmussen, Architect* 

MUNICIPAL SUPERVISION OF ARCHITECTURE 






A recent issue of the American Jour- 
nal of Sociology contains an article by 
Prof. Frederick M. Paclelford, of the 
University of Washington on the subject 
of Municipal Supervision of Architec- 
ture. Some of his suggestions are as fol- 
lows : 

"I would establish the office of city 
architect as a part of the municipal gov- 
ernment. This office would carry a very 
generous salary, so that a man of real 
worth could accept it without undue 
financial sacrifice. To safeguard the of- 
fice from politics I would have candidates 
submit designs to a tribunal appointed 
by the fellows of the American Institute 
of Architects. 

"The city architect would have asso- 
ciated with him a council, likewise chos- 
en by merit. All plans for proposed 
buildings would be submitted to this 
body, and those that were unworthy of 
the city would be vetoed. Of course the 
architect and his council would not use 
their office to promote any particular 



styles of architecture, but would welcome 
individuality in so far as it was in accord 
with the correct principles of art. In 
fact, I would have the office conduct fre- 
quent prize contests for various styles of 
buildings, in order that the architects of 
the city might be stimulated to their best 
endeavors. 

"For every building erected there 
would have to be an architect's plan, and 
in order that this might not work a hard- 
ship on the poor the office would furnish 
a large number of acceptable designs 
from which a choice might be made. For 
the plan thus accepted a nominal price 
would be paid, and this would be turned 
over to the architect who filed the plan 
with the office, and who would superin- 
tend the erection of the building. These 
plans could be used many times, pro- 
vided, of course, that undue duplication 
in any one locality were prohibited. In 
this way I would prevent the erection of 
characterless little houses and the p 
tice of stealing plans." 



POPPIES 



Oh, poppy blooms, lull me to rest 

In dreamless sleep ; 
While tired birds seek their drowsy nest 

Ere night-dews weep : 
With gentle touch in lang'rous calm 

My senses steep : 
White petals dipped in healing balm 



Soft vigils keep ; 
While heart and brain 

In slumber deep. 
Come, tender poppies, 
sink- 
In dreamless sleep. 

— Carrie 



nepenthe drink 
et mine eyelids 

F. 




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A NEW TENOR FOR DES MOINES 



A distinct addition to the musical life 
of the city and state has been made in 
the person of Mr. James F. Roach, the 
new tenor in the staff of Highland Park 
College "f Music. Mr. Roach demon- 
strated his ability to entrance a big aud- 
ience on the evening of September 15. 
when Plymouth church was packed to 
the doors with a welcoming audience 
to greet him in his first song recital. 

was assisted by Eugene Hahnel, 
Wendell Heighton, cello and 
Dean N'agel, piano; and Mrs. Roach 
played his accompaniments so beau- 
tifully that they were part of the 
delight of the evening. Mr. Roach 
had chosen a program that was 
sufficiently varied to show all of 
the splendid quality of his voice. 
Mis songs were: Herodiade "Air de 
Salome," Massenet, Song Cycle, "A 
1 .1 iver in Damascus," Amy Woodsforde 
Finden, Far Across the Desert Sands, 
Where the Abana Flows, How Many a 
Lonely Caravan, If in the Great Bazaars, 
Allah be with Us, The Asra, Rubinstein, 
Wiegenleid, Tschaikowsky, Greeting, 
I [awley. 



number, Mr. Roach 
in a spell. His voice 



From the first 
held his audience 

is of splendid range, sympathetic quality 
and his enunciation perfect, while his 
presence on the stage is superb. Mr. 
and Mrs. Roach have traveled widely, 
once with Nordica, and have lived in 
foreign cities, where they studied the 
languages and the people of various 
lands. In love with their native kind, 
they finally decided to settle down to 
living in the middle west and Highland 
Park College was a successful competi- 
tor with many other schools in securing 
Mr. Roach in a long contract. 

Mus noted school was indeed fortU- 




JAMES F. ROACH 



11 ate in securing a man of such wide 
culture and one so thoroughly master 
of bis art as is Mr. Roach. All music 
lovers in Des Moines will rejoice over 
bis accession to our .musical ranks. 



THE MIDWESTERN 



A WELL KNOWN ARCHITECT 





OLIVER O. SMITH 



( >liver < ). Smith, the well known archi- 
tect, is a native of Des Moines and re- 
ceived his education in the public schools 
of the city. Since l8oi Air. Smith has 



been a successful architect in Iowa and 
has stood in the front rank in his pro- 
fession. His energy, united to the high- 
est gifts for his work, have enabled him 
to accomplish what few men of his age 
have done, and have caused his name to 
be known fir and wide. His work is 
evidence of bis splendid ability, and the 
poetic and artistic faculty is evidenced in 
everything from the simplest cottage to 
the grandest public building. Mr. Smith 
was a member of the firm of Smith, 
Wetherell & Gage until recently and at 
one time was associated with F. A. Gut- 
terson, which was considered to be the 
best architectural firm in Iowa. 

Air. Smith's work has been chiefly pub- 
lic buildings, libraries, school houses, 
court bouses, fine churches, etc. All of 
the buildings on the state fair grounds 
were planned by him. His residence 
work has ranged from the most splendid 
houses to the simplest bungalows. Many 
of the finest homes in Des Moines and 
many Iowa towns are evidence of his 
ability in that line. 

Air. Smith is of the progressive and 
enthusiastic type of architect with whom 
it is a delight to work, and his assochtes 
in all of his enterprises have only good 
words for him. As one of the men whose 
fine ability has helped to make Des 
Moines in an architectural way, 
The Midwestern is proud to present this 
little sketch of him. His offices are 
Suite 300, Youngerman building. 




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ANOTHER PURE FOOD SHOW 

Oh October 19 the annual pure food 
show will be held in Des Moines, under 
the auspices of the Retail Grocers' As- 
sociation. The show will be held in a 
central location, in the building on Wal- 
nut street now occupied by Chapman 
Bros. The show in past years has 
been a great feature and contributed 
much to the life of the state and citv. 
Exhibitors will be here from all over 
the country, and a splendid display will 
be made. i'he public may count on 
seeing the best show ever held in the 
city. Mr. Beaner, secretary of the as- 
sociation, is leaving nothing undone 
which will insure success. 



PACKERS TO TEST SALT- 
PETERED MEAT 

In return for permitting their diges- 
tions to be used in the interests of 
science, twenty-four young men of the 
University of Illinois will be given board 
and lodgings for a year. They will be 
fed on the fat of the land. Dr. H. S. 
Grindley has two large houses waiting 
for the "saltpeter squad." The American 
Packers' Association, which hopes to 
demonstrate that saltpeter isn't injurious 
as a meat preservative, is footing the 
bills, and the tests are under the super- 
vision of the state university and a com- 
mittee of experts of national renown. 

Three parties of eight men each will be 
formed. Some will be fed with fresh 
meat, others with saltpetered beef. Care- 
ful record will be kept of the weight and 
the state of health of the students during 
the experiments. 



WATER AND HEALTH 

"A noted physician talking the other 
day of the improvements which had come 
in modern medicine commented on the 
reduction of the number of drugs used 
by the medical profession generally, say- 
ing that as a young doctor he had started 
out with a hundred or more drugs, which 
he prescribed regularly, but after thirty 
years had come down to using only a 
dozen, and some of these only occasion- 
ally," says the Buffalo Evening Times. 

"The question was asked of him if he 
was obliged to confine himself to a half 
dozen remedial agents, which he would 
choose as applicable to the largest num- 
ber of conditions. Without hesitation 
he replied that if humankind had every 
■ remedy taken away, except pure water, 
with intelligent use, a great deal- could 
be done, as water comes nearer than any 
one thing to a universal remedy. 

Seventy-five per cent of the human 
system is composed of water ; the tissues 
of the body demand and respond to it, 
and the commonest failing of humanity 
is to neglect to take enough water into 
the system. The muscles, cartilage, ten- 
dons and to a great extent the bones are 
dependent on water to preserve their 
elasticity and pliability. The circulatory 
system is dependent on it to carry the 
various nutritive elements to the tissues 
that demand them. It dilutes the blood 
and temporarily increases its supply; it 
acts as a solvent to waste material, re- 
ducing it to a condition in which it can 
be eliminated. It promotes greater free- 
dom for activity in the vital organs, by 
removing obstruction and facilitating the 
work of destruction of waste matter. 

"The moral is if you would be healthy 
take water inside and outside ; take it in 
every form, and take enough of it." 



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MIDWESTERN 



O. C. PIXLEY 

IDEAL BUILDING BRICK 

The up-to-date manufactures of face 
brick finds himself today in a position 
very different from that of a compara- 
tively few years ago. American archi- 
tecture is improving' by leaps and bounds 
and in no line is there to be noted more 
decided change or greater improvement 
than in the selection of material. Whole 
structures are being built of concrete, 
cement blocks, terra-cotta and other mat- 
erials that were not seriously considered 
ten years ago. Every day something 
new is called to the attention of the 
building public. 

The lumber supply of the world is in 
such condition that frame buildings are 
necessarily expensive and the more per- 
manent, artistic, and in every way more 
creditable material, is being demanded. 
For small residences, frame construction 
will undoubtedly be used longer than 
for any other class of buildings, but if 
the general public were thoroughly ac- 
quainted with conditions as they exist 
brick would be used in all new residence 
construction. In a few years Des 
Moines would become a permanently 



built brick city instead of containing so 
many undesirable frame structures. 
From a financial standpoint brick should 
be universally used. To illustrate this, 
1 will call attention to a friend who is 
building a new residence. Tt will cost 
about $6,000.00, has nine rooms and was 
to be frame construction. His plans 
were changed, however, and the first 
story of his house is to be veneered with 
face brick. After receiving bids both 
ways he found that it cost only $290.00 
more to use face brick. Should he ever 
wish to dispose of his property it is easily 
worth $1500.00 more than it would have 
been as first planned. The expense of 
painting a frame residence for ten years 
between frame and brick construction 
and this expense not only continues but 
increases as the frame building grows 
older. If you are to build a new resi- 
dence there is no other investment that 
can possibly equal the extra expense of a 
creditable face brick. Tt took architects 
a great many years to learn that a plain 
Uniformly colored brick wall was not 
artistic, and after learning the lesson, it 
has taken them till the present day to 
convince the building public. 

Until recently face bricks were select- 
ed for size, color, hardness etc. till a com- 
pleted building was anything but artistic 
in fact, it looked as if it had heen built of 
a cheap grade of common brick and then 
painted. 

The universal Craftsman movement 
has taught us to admire the natural 
beauty of grain in woods as brought out 
by simple stains and finishes. We 
no longer find beautiful woods being 
painted as heretofore. The influence of 
this Craftsman movement has been felt 
in brick, and America as a nation is just 
beginning to produce brick structures 
in which the natural blending of colors 
makes harmonious exteriors that are 
most acceptable. 

In selecting a face brick the first 
question to be settled should be "Will it 
readily absorb water?" You can nnke 
this test by simply taking a cup and pour- 
ing water onto the brick. If the water 
disappears you should discard the brick, 
for if given an opportunity to do so, that 
brick will white-wash. A brick that is 
vitrified will not absorb water, readily. 
and will not white-wash. After the 
above point has been settled see that the 
brick you are to use has life, and the 
colrings you admire. Don't use a brick 




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with a dull finish and expect your build- 
ings to have life. A dull finished brick 
never improves by age but gathers dirt 
and moisture and becomes more somber 
and unsatisfactory every day. Every 
rain revives a properly vitrified brick 
and leaves the face of your building 
bright and clean as it was the day it 
was first laid up and when mortar joints 
become toned down by age a good grade 
of vitrified brick makes a most pleasing 
exterior. 






FUEL FOR HEATING 
HOUSES 



The coal or other fuel used in the 
dwelling house plays an important part 
in the domestic economy, both affecting 
the comfort and the health of the family. 
The coals accessible to us of the middle 
West are anthracite, semi-anthracite, 
semi-bituminous, bituminous and lignite. 
The bituminous is generally the most 
satisfactory, and a new river coal called 
the "ocean smokeless" has won favor 
from all who have tried it in Des Moines. 
It is perfectly dry, very little ashes, and 
entirely free from clinkers. Everv coal 
dealer should understand method of 
firing with the coal which he handles. 
Proper Bring would in almost all cases 
prevent the smoke from which we all 
suffer more or less. 

Coke is in favor with many people on 
account of its cleanliness in the cellar, 
and (he ease with which the fire is han- 
dled. It can also be used successfully in 
grates. For the range there is nothing 
really so good as hard coal, and in the 
long run it is less expensive than soft 
coal, lint ignorance in method of hand- 
ling in western states causes it to be lit- 
tle used. 

I' or broiling purposes every housekeep- 
er and cook should insist in keeping on 
hands a barrel of charcoal. Nothing 
equals it for broiling purposes and after 

eating a mackerel, a thick porterhouse 

Steak or a young chicken broiled on 
charcoal fire, one would never be willing 
to eat it any other wav. 




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A. K. CAMPBELL 



ABOUT HEATING OUR HOUSES 



By A. K. Campbell 



For ages men have been seeking good 
house heating ami not finding it. The 
ancients had fire but little knew how to 
use it. The kings of England two hun- 
dred years ago warmed themselves by 
standing before an open fire, turning 
themselves aboul for heat like a "goose 
mi a spit." A house may be costly built, 
hut if imt heated is not habitable. Poorly 
heated, ever) di illar invested in the build 
ing is discounted 25 to 50 per cent. LJn- 



sanitarily heated, the damage may be 
great it cannot be measured by dollars 
and cents. Thousands suffer every win 
ter in fine houses, from poor heating. 
Few have well heated homes. The "Met- 
al Worker," a recognized authority ot 
heiting throughout this countr) and in 
Europe, published in New York, s 
editorially January 14, [904: "That 
tie or im dependence can be placed 01 
1 irge majority of the heaters now in 



it lit- 



ABOUT HEATING OUR HOUSES 



87 



has been fully demonstrated. It goes 
without contradiction that no less than 
fifteen of every twenty of our homes are 
imperfectly heated." Hence buying a 
heater is like buying a watermelon : you 
may get a good one and be happy. 

The business of heating has been in 
the hands of unskilled men. Ninety per 
cent of heaters are put in by men not 
capable of success except by accident. 
The failure may be in either or all of the 
following respects, viz: House not 
warmed ; fuel expense great ; too slow in 
heating; air not healthful (too dry, stag- 
nant, dirty, "close," "stuffy," all around 
disagreeable) ; cold floors with hot air 
about the head ; chilling drafts within the 
house; a "now-too-hot" and "now-too- 
cold" condition all day long, etc. 
HEATING BY FURNACES 

For fifty years furnaces have been 
popular heaters, as they heat the whole 
house from one fire. They ordinarily 
furnish the required heat ; in fact they 
always will if of sufficient capacity and 
properly planned and installed. They 
give air movement over all the house ; 
they furnish good ventilation ; they heat 
all parts of a room the same ; they heat 
quickly; they are suitable for all kinds 
of weather and are generally easy to care 
for. 

However, there is a prolonged protest 
from all parts of the world against them. 
The objections are, first, that they are 
dirty. This is due to poorlv constructed 
joints in the furnace itself, loose con- 
struction of ducts in the cellar, and there 
is no way to clean the dirt out of the 
air chamber; second, they burn too much 
fuel, which is true where of insufficient 
capacity and improperly installed and of 
certain types of furnaces with direct draft 
into the chimney. Third, they are short 
lived. This is due to the fact that fur- 
naces are nearly all made dirt cheap, too 
small and are crippled by poor installa- 
tion. Fourth, they don't hold the heat 
once secured, clue to the fact that there is 
nothing to store heat. This can be rem- 
edied and is in some systems. In fact 
a student of heating will observe that 
these faults can be avoided by him who 
will pay the price, and they are not in- 
herent in the furnace system. But fur- 
nace manufacturers have sought to sup- 
ply an enormous demand for something 
cheap, resulting in the discredit of the 
furnace system which is really the best, 
provided it is in the hands of men who 



understand the business, which is seldom 
the case. 

HOT WATER HEATING 

Heating by hot water has become pop- 
ular in the last fifteen or twenty years. 
It has some advantages. It will carry 
heat farther from its source than furnace 
heating. On account of the loose con- 
struction of furnaces it has earned the 
reputation of being cleaner. The heat 
once secured and stored in the water 
holds longer. It is claimed for hot water 
that it is sanitary, giving moist air, etc., 
but this claim cannot be substantiated. 
The air from hot water heating is as dry 
as a desert, which is true of any system 
which does not supply moisture in large 
quantities. There is no ventilation. The 
radiator heats the air of one room over 
and over except where expensive, indi- 
rect radiators are used, but on account of 
the great cost and unsatisfactory opera- 
tion' they are seldom installed. 

It is claimed for hot water heating that 
it is very economical in fuel consumption. 
There are some such plants ; then there 
are others with enormous fuel bills which 
call attention to the fact that economy in 
heating depends more on the proper plan- 
ning and installation of the heater than 
it does on the kind of a heater. Also one 
fireman may burn twice as much fuel as 
another. The objections to the hot 
water system are : 

First. It is very slow in operation, 
which means a cool house for breakfast 
and difficult to control in mild weather 
of spring and fall. 

Second. It gives as dry an air as any 
system can and is injurious to skin and 
lun.es, etc. 

Third. It does not warm the floors 
well. It is like stoves in this respect. 

Fourth. It gives no ventilation. 

Fifth. It may freeze and burst. Many 
of them do, costing large sums to repair. 

Unlike the objections made to fur- 
naces, the objections to hot water heat- 
ing are inherent in the system and cannot 
be cured by those who would be willing 
to pay the price. 

STEAM HEATING 

Steam heating is the most efficient for 
carrying the heat of the fire for long dis- 
tances with little loss of heat. Under 
pressure steim has been known to travel 
seven miles in one minute through pipes. 
[t is little used for heating private houses 
because of the quality and irregularity of 



88 



THE MIDWESTERN 



the heating. It has no rival for many 
kinds of heatings, yet for residences and 
smaller business buildings, schools and 
churches where some other system can be 
used, the difficulty of carrying steam over 
night, the extra fuel consumed to main- 
tain steam pressure and the large amount 
of care required, makes it the poorest sys- 
tem there is for' these buildings. 



A NEW SYSTEM OF HEATING 

In order to avoid the serious objections 
to the system of heating described above, 
the Campbell System has been developed. 
It is based on four distinct inventions, se- 
cured by patents, to-wit : 

The Brick Heating Oven in place of 
the close brick or galvanized iron jacket 
of the common furnace. 

The Rotary Air Movement, by which 
the air of the house is continuously car- 
ried through the heating oven to be puri- 
fied, moistened, disinfected, cleaned, etc. 

The Water Battery, which is the only 
practical method of moistening the air 
of the house ever devised, and which is 
based on the fact that air at zero will 
only carry about one grain of moisture to 
the cubic foot and heated to seventy or 
eighty deprees demands ten grains. 

The Solid Steel Plate heater which 
achieves the long desired result of being 
smoke, gas and dust tight (permanently 
so), increases the life of the furnace three 
hundred per cent, and gives absolute con- 
trol of the fire so that heavy fire can be 
carried in the furnace with twenty-five 
per cent of the draft required by common 
furnaces. 

As to cleanliness, by building the 
Campbell Brick Heating Oven the air 
chamber is easily cleanable. By air tight 
ducts and heating oven the cellar air is 
excluded from the air movement. By 
building a boiler plate heater there are no 
joints to leak smoke and dirt. Every 
part of the heater is made tight against 
steam pressure and not a single joint is 
made tight by asbestos cement, used in 
the construction of all common furnaces. 

As to economy, the Campbell System 
has a remarkable record. The heating 
oven allows large volumes of air to ap- 
proach the furnace, which carries into the 
house all the heat which the heater 
makes. The bade radiating drum with- 
out down draft holds the hot gases until 
they have given out their heat. The very 
larsre capacity of the Campbell Heaters 
makes it unnecessary to crowd the fires 



even in extreme weather, resulting in 
the saving of about one-third to one-half 
the fuel commonly used. 

As to durability. Our experience of 
twenty-five to thirty years has shown the 
Campbell Heaters to be a permanent part 
of a house. They are practically inde- 
structible. 

As to steady heating, the Campbell 
System excels hot water. The sixty gal- 
lon water battery and brick heating oven 
stores the surplus heat, giving it out 
when the fire is low, thus carrying the 
temperature for twelve hours with almost 
no variation, even with soft coal and 
wood as fuel. At the same time it heats 
the house in the quickest possible time. 
As to moist air, the Water Battery 
evaporates several gallons of water daily, 
curing the dry air evil in all other sys- 
tems. 

As to warm floors, the Rotary Air 
movement warms f '->e floors and prevents 
drafts which are common and incurable 
with the hot water system. 

As to ventilation, every bit of fresh air 
coming in at every point immediately 
g"ets into the rotary air movement and 
i3 brought into the rooms used pure and 
warm. An outside air duct can be con- 
nected to the heater permitting the in- 
troduction of as little or as much fresh 
air as is desired, giving perfect ventila- 
tion. 

It will be seen that the Campbell Sys- 
tem cures all of the serious objections 
to furnaces, and is free from the incur- 
able objections to hot water systems. In 
larger houses the Campbell Combination 
solves the problem completely by heating 
rooms remote from the heater with hot 
water, radiators, securing the one advan- 
tage of hot water heating and all the 
benefits of the Campbell System by A. K. 
Campbell. A warm story sent free on 
request by the Campbell Heating Com- 
pany, Des Moines, Iowa. 

N. O. Stevens, of Lawrence, Kan., 
says : "It is as near perfect as such 
things can be." 

Frank W. Vorse, of Des Moines, says:' 
"I have the best heating plant in the city 
now." 

Dr. Watzek, after seven years' use of 

Ids Campbell Heater, says to his wife: 

"After all that may be said of hot 

water heating, we have the best heated 

home in Davenport." 

A. W. T.vman, Revenue Collector, St. 
Paul, says: 



A NEW SYSTEM OF HEATING 



89 



"They have hot water 'skinned to 
death.' My Campbell Heater is just as 
far ahead of the best hot water plant as 
the best hot water plant is ahead of the 
old coal stove. It is cleaner than hot 
water." 

Chas. S. Schurman, St. Paul, Minn., 
savs : 



"I would not exchange my plant for a 
hot water plant at the same or less cost." 
C. M. Benham, St. Paul, Minn., says : 
"The air in the house seems to be more 
like warm outdoor air than like the or- 
dinary air found in a house heated by hot 
water or any other method." 



FIRM OF WETHERELL & GAGE 



The architect firm of Wetherell and 
Gage is composed of Frank E. Wether- 
ell. who came here from Oskaloosa three 
years ago, and A. J. Gage who is well 
known in Des Moines from his fourteen 
years of work as an architect here. This 
firm's offices are busy places, the amount 
of work taken and executed by them 
being really enough for several firms. 
Their work is seen all over Iowa and 
speaks for itself in strength and beauty 
as well as architectural fitness, being very 
superior. Steel construction work and 
public buildings om a specialty with this 
firm, altho they are among the most 
popular house architects in the middle 
west, where their work is well known. 
The houses planned by them are especi- 
ally "homey" and also suitable for the 
grounds on which they are built. Both 
members of this firm give their personal 
attention to all orders received, and work 
in harmony with the ideas of their cus- 
tomers. For promptness, high ability 
in design, originality and perfection of 



detail, Wetherell & Gage stand in the 
front rank of western architects. All 
prospective builders, should give 
them a call, at their offices in the Youn- 
german building. 



Dyspapsla-BUliousness-Rtiaamatlsm . 

Constipitlon-Unr tad Kidneys. I 

A jug full on trial will J 
I convince you. I 

I A full descriptive Booklet I 
I mailed on application. 1 

gallon * U I Wll p/ess tor 1 ' I 
We pay 50c for the jug 
| when returned. Address 

COLFAX BOTTLING WORKS 

Colfax, Iowa 



A. J. MARTINSON, Pres. 



I. E. ARLAUD. Treas. 



Des IDoincs Electric Construction Co. 

Mutual 7406 K 123-125 WEST GRAND AVE. 

Iowa 4483 DES MOINES, IOWA 

Agents for 

Western Electric Co.'s Power and Motor Apparatus 

Mcintosh Battery and Optical Co. 

Baby Gasoline Torch 



ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS 
FIXTURES 



ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES 
MOTORS 



CONTRACTING 
GENERATORS 

Our Repair Department is Unsurpassed 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



IOWA PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 



The greatest single addition to Iowa 
buildings this year is the large cement 
plant being erected by the Iowa Port- 
land Cement Company in the southwest 
part of the city of Des Moines. This 
company is expending on its buildings 
and machinery over one million dollars. 
The buildings are all of reinforced con- 
crete and cover over twenty acres of 
ground. 

The placing of high grade Iowa Port- 
land Cement on the market will stimu- 
late the building of concrete buildings 
and bridges which have already become 
so popular on account of their durabil- 



ity, slight fire risk and low cost of main- 
tenance and repairs. It is safe to pre- 
dict that within a few years cement will 
be used largely in the construction of all 
court houses, school houses and public 
buildings generally as a protection 
against the enormous loss of property 
and life by fire.which, added to the pres- 
ent demand will make a ready market 
in this immediate territory for the entire 
output of 5,000 barrels to be made by 
this plant daily. 

In this issue we present a view of the 
plant, now well along in construction. 



J. C. MARDIS, CONTRACTOR 



The work of Mr. J. C. Mardis, presi- 
dent of the Capital City Brick and 
Pipe Co., is so well and favorably 
known all over the middle west that it 
needs but little comment. Mr. Mardis' 
name stands for splendid achievement 
along his line, and in Des Moines and 
Iowa no contractor has more good 
friends than he has, both on account 
of his work and for himself, as a gen- 
erous hearted, big man in every sense 



0: the word and a credit to his town 
and state. 

The most recent piece of building ot 
which this company has reason for 
pnde is the new Hubbell building at 
Eighth and Walnut, the first building 
of any size to be built of reinforced 
concrete in Iowa. It ■ is faced with 
pressed brick and when finished will be 
the finest store building in Iowa. 



A BOON TO THE HOUSEKEEPER 



The time has passed when the home- 
keeper in Des Moines feels that she can- 
not own and use lovely draperies, rugs, 
etc., on account of having them ruined 
by smoke and coal dirt. For everybody 
knows what wonders in the way of 
cleaning are done by The Wardrobe of 
which Ed Crawford is the proprietor. 
Not only do they clean every and all sorts 
of dress fabrics successfully, but the fin- 
est curtains, portieres, bed comforts, fine 
blankets and rugs of every description 



are cleaned to look like new, without the 
slightest injury to the article. New ma- 
chinery especially for the purpose of 
cleaning Turkish and oriental rugs is 
now installed, and the rugs will be clean- 
ed to look like new. Furs of all kinds 
are cleaned successfully and moths kept 
from them by the process. The New 
Wardrobe is certainly a boon to the 
homes of Des Moines. They are reliable 
and prompt in their services and satis- 
fa^t'on is guaranteed. 



DIRECTORY OF OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN DES MOINES 

None but Registered Osteopaths will appear in this "Department 
DRS. CALDWELL & RIDGE WAY 301-304 Flynn Blk. Both Phones Office Hours 9-11 and 1-2 



DR. P. B. GROW 



Cor. S. W. Ninth and Park Ave. 



Both Phones 



DRS. J. A. and JENNIE A. STILL 729 East Locust St. 



Both Phone« 



DR. EVA SNIDER WALKER 



1112 Eleventh St. 



Both Phonel 



J.Mandelbaum £^ONS 



507-509-511 WALNUT STREET 



THE STORE FOR YOU 

Where Lasting Satisfaction follows Every Transaction 
Dry Goods Furnishings Millinery 

Women's Misses' and Children's Ready-lo-W ear Jlpparel 

Trunks and Bags Pyrography, Jlrl Qoods 

Rugs and Curtains T)ress Maying 

The season's assortments in all lines are now magnificently complete and the values are 
such as merit your patronage. 



Friedlich Hand-Made 
Smart Clothes 



Our Fashion Magazine for Fall and Winter 
is out. If you didn't get one in the mail, send 
your name and address on a postal card and 
we'll show you beautiful illustrations of cor- 
rect styles for men. 

theUtica 

l.&JK. FRIEDLICH 



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THE MIDWESTERN 
MADAM SCHERMERHORN RETURNS FROM EUROPE 



The many good friends of Madame 
Schermerhorn will be pleased to greet 
her again after several months absence 
in Europe. She went abroad for the 
purpose of getting rest and to visit 
a while in London and Paris, the shops 
of the celebrated modistes, thus to bring 
home the latest and most correct ideas 
of prevailing styles for the benefit of 
her customers. During her stav in 
Paris she was entertained bv old friends 



and met many Americans traveling 
abroad. She brings good news to those 
who were dreading the Directoire style, 
and says this gown as we know it, will 
not be worn at all during the coming 
season. She also says that the style is 
lovely and becoming to every figure. 
Madame Schermerhorn is an artist in 
her line and certainly makes the getting 
of a new gown a joy to her customers. 




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The Turner Rest Home 

Sanitarium and flineral Spring 

COLFAX, IOWA 

Open all the year. Mineral Water Baths. X-Ray, 
Electric and Hydrotherapy treatments. 

WRITE IfOK BOOKLET 

L. C. S. TURNER. M. D. ALICE TURNER, M. D. 

Proprietors and Managers 



WARE 

Transfer ®. Storage Co. 

Office: 715 W. Grand Ave. 



Piano Movers 

for SEVEN of the PIANO 
HOUSES ef the CITY 

Large Vans arid Careful Men for 
Furniture. /SB Storage arid 
Freight Work & 



Mutual Phone 917 



Iowa Phone 1109-Y 




Fall Millinery 



The shapes are just right and the 
styles in keeping with the new fall 
costumes. 



Where you always find exclusive styles. 

SUSIE BRADLEY 



703 West Locust 
Street 



DES MOINES 



Carpet Cleaning Works 



Mutual L 7543 
Iowa 190 X 



D. G. CARNAHAN, Prop. 

764 NINTH STREET 



DR. B. A. STOCKDALE 

Specialist Stomach, Liver and Kidney 

DISEASES 

also Catarrh and Nervous Debility. If you cannot 

fall at olllcc. write ma about vour ailment. 
Address . DR. B. A. STOCKDALE, 

llOoDdlll DttoaBldg. Des Moines, Iowa 



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Finest 
Foreign 
Millinery 
Models 

For Fall 

Now 

On 'Display 

Younker 
Brothers 



Des Moines 



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^s/Zat/ajji \Ofnanfo 



fminkrr fflrnt^ra 

Announces the opening of her parlors for 
high-class dressmaking. 

Latest and most exclusive styles. 



am"1 have used Danish Cloth (or my daughters' dresses and^g^ 
cannot too highly endorse all that is said in its favor." 

Half Wool 

DANISH CLOTH 

Retails at 15c per yard. 

Just the thing for economical, serviceable school 
dresses for misses and children. 

Equally as adaptable for shirt-waists, suits, skirts, 
kimonos, house and street dresses. 

The same fabric 36 inches wide is known as 

Poplar Cloth 

Retails at 25c per yard 

Full line of shades, light and dark colors. Navy 
Blue (630) has a wide selvage, is fast and will not 
crock. Black is also dyed by special process, is fast 
and will not crock. 



As*\ your retailer jor these goods 



MRS. CELESTE B. QIVENS\ 

ANNOUNCES to her pupils and friends that | 
she will resume teaching September 16. 1908. 
Ensemble Work. Ear Training and Sight 
Reading -will be special features. Also Recitals. 
private and public. 



THE MIDWESTERN 

Published Monthly at Des Moines, Iowa, by the 

Greater Des Moines Publishing Company. 

Offices 532-542 Good Block. 

Entered at Ties Moines Post Office as 2nd Class Mailer 

Terms, $1 yr. Copyright 1908 All Rights Resewed 



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THE MIDWESTERN 





EVERETT FRAIZER 
Manager McQuaid Co. 

The McQuaid Co.'s grocery has been 
removed from Seventh street to the 
Grand, at Eighth and Walnut. Under 
the management of Mr. Fraizer the 
store has prospered splendidly and their 
capacity for doing business will now be 
better than ever before. The grocery, 
meat market and bakery will be on the 
first floor, while on the fifth floor the 
cafe will be conducted as it was in the 
old store. This cafe is one of the most 
popular in Des Moines, with its good 
service, music and delicious home cook- 
ing. The many friends of this big es- 
tablishment will find their equipment 
the best in the city. 



AN IOWA POET 

Poet, nature lover and literateur, 
one would hardly expect to be also an 
up-to-date man of business. Rut in 
Mr. W. D. Olney, well known in Des 
Moines and Iowa we have this combina- 
tion. Politician might also be added, 
for as an independent worker along po- 
litical lines he has no superior. He 
helped the Bryan cause in '96, later sup- 
ported McKinley and Roosevelt, two 
vears ago helped elect Cummins and 
now is working hard for Bryan, and is 
sure of his election. In 1894 ' le start- 
ed the Dailv Tribune in Des Moines 



and wrote its editorials. At present Mr. 
( )lney is the enthusiastic fiscal agent 
lor the Big Ox Mining Co., of Helena, 
Montana. 

As a promoter of mines lie has been 
a pronounced success and is an excel- 
lent writer on all topics connected with 
mining propositions, This issue of the 
magazine contains a very beautiful 
poem by Mr. Olney, which was pub- 
lished some years since and attracted 
attention all over the countrv. 



The Keeley Institute 

I INCORPORATED 1 

706 Fourth Street 
Des Moines, Iowa 




Home of the only Keeley Institute in Iowa 
ESTABLISHED EIGHTEEN YEARS 

Liquor. Drug and 

Tobacco Addictions and 
Neurasthenia Cured 

Call or send for Free New Booklet which Is 
Beautifully Illustrated 

The only place in the state of Iowa 
where the genuine Keeley remedies 
and treatment are given. 

g < Iowa "97 



Phones 



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Lawrence Drug Co. 

Cor. Sixth and Locust Sts 

Everything in the Drug Line 

Prescriptions Carefully Filled 




DOMENICO LAGORI 

Little Italian newsboy friend of Miss Orra Johnston, who wrote the poem 
about him. When his last baby brother came, Domenico came in 
haste to tell her and to predi t that the new brother 
would sell papers after while "Just Like 1." 



"HE SELL PAPERS JUST LIKE I" 



got another little boy," his dark eyes Smiled at me, and then grew bolder. 



glistened 
As I topped my work, looked up and 

listened. 
"He here today, I wanted you know, 
So I come up now to told you so." 

He parted his lips and shrugged a shoul- 
der, 



'His name is Tony in Eetaleeyon, 
Now we've four boys and sister one. 

"He not much big, pretty soon he grow, 
He fists his hands and eyes like so. 
When he grow up in six years high, 
He sell papers, just like 1." 

— Orra R. Johnston. 



Take them to Mrs. Ferrington 



Martha Washington rugs are all the style at present. One sees them in 
the most elegant homes, in bed room s and bath rooms, and even in dining 
rooms. They are made at the Reliable Rug factory, of which Mrs. W. E. 
Ferrington is the well-known proprietor, so perfect and so beautiful that 
they are really works of art. This noted factory stands alone in the middle 
west for fine work and has a reputation all over America. By consulting over 
the 'phone or in person with Mrs. Ferrington the method ; of preparing ma- 
terial may be learned. Every home ha^ plenty of material Which collects and 
often is destroyed or wasted, which could be converted into beautiful floor cov- 
erings if taken to The Reliable Rug Works. This establishment is worth vis- 
iting and seeing the remarkable metbpds used in doing their fine work. Not 
only are Martha Washington rugs made here, but all sorts! of old carpets are 
converted into beautiful rugs, large and small. Faded materials are colored 
any desired shade. Silk scraps are cut and made into lovely curtains, slum- 
ber robes or sofa pillow tops. Mrs. Ferrington has the taste to dictate, and 
everything turned out from her establishment delights the owner. 

Orders outside of Des Moines are promptly and satisfactorily filled. 



AUCTION AUCTION 
$20,000 $20,000 $20,000 

On Saturday, September 26, '08, the fine $20,000 stock of watches, jewelry, 
cut glass and silverware of W. Powell Harvey will be offered at public sale. 
Through unfair competition Mr. Harve) 's sales have been such that he is now 
forced to convert his splendid stock into money, and to make room for his 
winter and Christmas goods. Mr. Harvey's stock of goods is of first-class 
quality and not the cheap imitations usually seen at auctions. The beautiful 
things which will be sold will appeal to every lover of nice jewelry, cut glass, 
etc., in Des Moines. The sale is sure to be a sensation when it begins. Each 
day the sales will take place from 10. a. m, to 11 130 a. m. ; 2. p. m. to 5 p. m. 
7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. There will be chairs for the ladies and each lady at- 
tendant will be given a publicate numbered ticket and a present will be given each 
day. The final present will be a fine silver service, at the closing sale. Mr. 
Harvey's name stands for fair dealing and his fine taste in selecting his stock 
is well known in Des Moines, nothing of so much importance in the way of a 
public sale has occurred in Des Moines for many years. This is a fine chance to 
stock up in silverware, to buy card prizes, wedding gifts and everything needful 
in the way of jewelry for the family, combs, watches, jeweled sets, cuff but- 
tons, etc. Every woman in town will find it to her advantage to attend this sale 
and to be present on the first day, Saturday, September 26, at 2 p. m., on Sixth 
Avenue near the street car waiting room, west side of the street. Next door to 
Olesen's. Nearly every car stops atHarvey's. 



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t-| ES MOINES PEOPLE have a great deal 
*J to feel thankful for, but above all other 
^=9 things they surely ought to be thankful 
for having such a splendid street car system. 
As a helper toward building up Des Moines it 
has done a marvelous work. In the extension 
of their different lines in all directions it has 
been the means of wonderfully spreading out 
our city and enhancing the value of property 
wherever its lines have gone. 



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Des Moines City Railway Co. 




And then, too, it gives its patrons 
splendid service and courteous treatment 



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THANKSGIVING FOR 1908 



Thanksgiving Day ! Is there any day 
in all the year quite like it? Of all days 
it has tenderest meaning', the outpouring 
of human hearts to God as the giver of 
all good gifts, the day when the national 
life means something beautiful and sweet. 

On that day, all hearts turn toward 
home — the man is a child again, yearn- 
ing for a look into his mother's face, 
for his place by the old home fireside. 
The traveler in foreign lands, the sailor 
on distant seas, the son or daughter es- 
tranged through long absence, thinks 
longingly of the old home place at 
Thanksgiving. In the good old days, all 
respectable people went to church on 
Thanksgiving morning, then home to sit 
down to a feast of good things. And 
such good things as they used to have ! 
The old-fashioned hard coal ranges 
cooked things different from the modern 
stoves. Everything was home-made, the 
bread snow-white, the turkey right from 
the farm and no cold storage stuff was 
used. A huge dish of apples, pears and 
grapes, saved purposelv for the occasion, 
and grown at home, would grace the side- 
board and the flowers were from shel- 
tered nooks in the garden, or from the 
sunny windows which grandmother tend- 
ed and which was always full of bloom. 
Each recurring Thanksgiving brings 
back those old days, and many a story is 
told to the younger members of the fam- 
ily on this holiday, relating occurrences 
of a happy past. In Iowa this is a ban- 
ner year of prosperity, and glad hearts 
will go out in gratitude to the Giver of 
all good things on November 30, 

Tn the kitchen great things will be do- 
ing — rows of pies, loaves of bread, jars 
of cookies, moulds of jelly, etc., being set 
aside for the big dinner to which are ex- 
pected all the children and the grand- 
children with perhaps a few uncles and 
aunts and cousins. The table, a big. 
round one from Chase & West's, will be 
set and spread with beautiful linen, from 
Younker's Store. The beautiful dishes 
for each course come from Rrinsmaids, 
and the cut-glass and silver from 
Schlampp's and Wilson the Elorist fur- 
nish the fragrant roses for a center- 
piece. The big range in which all of the 



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goodies are baked, including the turkey, 
comes from Dimmitt's hardware house, 
and the Madison Coal Co. furnish the 
coal. 

The turkey (or ducks, or chicken) 
come from the Fulton Market, and grand- 
ma pronounces them as good as she used 
to have at her home. The cranberries 
(potatoes, squash, and all the groceries), 
of which the good things are made come 
from Cleland's, the finest and cleanest 
grocery house in Iowa. The Beatrice 
Creamery Company furnish the sweet, 




The Turner Rest Home 

Sanitarium and Mineral Spring 

COLFAX, IOWA 

Open all the year. MiDeral Water Baths. X-Ray. 
Electric and Hydrotherapy treatments. 

WRITE FOU BOOKLET 

L. C. S. TURNER, M. D. ALICE TURNER. M. D. 

Proprietors and Managers 




Des Moines 
Iowa 



CURES 

LIQUOR, DRUG 
AND TOBACCO 
HABITS 

Write NOW for 
706 west fourth 9T. Our Free Bocklei 






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THE MIDWESTERN 

Published Monthly at Des Moines, Iowa, by the 

Greater Des Moines Publishing Company. 

Offices 532-542 Good Block. 

gntered at 'Des Moines Post Office as 2nd Class Mailer 

Terms, $1 yr. Copyright 1 908 All Rights ReseroeJ 




The Fulton Market 

419 SIXTH AVE. 

is the place to get good, fresh 

Game, Poultry, Meats 

of all kinds. 
THEY CAN ALWA YS BE RELIED ON. 



YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER 

won't taste just right unless it is cooked 

on a MAJESTIC STEEL RANGE, sold by 
GEORGE M. DIMMITT 

207 Mulberry HARDWARE 207 Mulberry 




Madison Coal Co. 

RELIABLE COAL 

Mutul 1 90 1 305 Seventh St. Iowa 868 





THE IOWA DAIRY 

I £U Pasteurized Cream and Milk is the only kind you 
^Jj should ever use in your cooking or on the table. 
ZjI Your Thanksgiving Dinner will be delicious if 
you use Pasteurized Cream and Milk from 

THE IOWA DAIRY CO. 

Mutual 726 I0I2W. Walnut St. Iowa 762 



Make your home cheerful on Thank«KiYintr Day by adorning it 
with cut FLOWERS. Your dinner won't seem right if there is 
not a bigbouuuet on the table. WILSON FLORAL CO. oan fur- 
nish you with anything you wish in the way of Cut Flowsrs or 
Potted Plants. Ferns, etc.. and ther are always fresh. 




THE MIDWESTERN 



fresh butter, both for cooking and for 
the table, golden and delicious. The 
cream, foamy and rich, comes from the 
famous Iowa Dairy Company's estab- 
lishment, as do also the glasses of milk 
at the children's plates. 

Falcon flour is used for the rolls, for 
the whole wheat bread and for the great 
snowy mound of cake. 

The coffee made in an electric percola- 
tor, is of a famous brand, the Old Golden, 
exclusively prepared and packed by Tone 
Brothers, whose spices, teas and coffees 
are sold over the world. 

The ice cream, without which no 
Thanksgiving dinner is complete, comes 
from the Crystal Packing Company, and 
the perfectly delicious chocolates from 
Davidson Bros., makers of the finest can- 
dies in America. The piano, from the 
Howard Music House, is played softly 
in the library across the hall, during the 
entire meal, old sweet melodies that fill 
the heart with happy memories. 

Several good menus are suggested 
here, but every housewife should choose 
the things best suited to the taste of her 



family, of which she knows better than 
anybody else. 

Menu No. 1. 

Cream of Oyster Soup 

Pish Cutlets Shrimp Sauce 

Roast Ducks Peas and Onions 

Caramel Sweet Potatoes 

Celery Salad 

Mince Pie Pineapple Ice 

White Loaf Cake 

Coffee 

Menu No. 2. 

Grape Fruit with Sheiry 

Rice Soup 

Roast Turkey Cranberry Sauce 

Mashed Potatoes Baked Sweet Potatoes 

Creamed Cauliflower Baked Tomatoe? 

Banana and Nut Salad, Mayonnaise 

Peach Ice Cream 

Caramel Cake 

Davidson's Chocolates 

Coffee 

Menu No. 3 

Oysters on the half shell 

Cream of Celery Soup 

Roast Chicken Currant Jelly 

Baked Potatoes Sweet Squash Loaf 

Nut and Apple Salad, Mayonnaise 

Pig Ice Cream 

White Layer Cake Devil's Food Cake 

Davidson's Chocolates 

Coffee 




Your Thanksgiving turkey u)ill be 
cooked brown as a berry, juicy, tender and 
luscious when you have your oven heated by 
a high grade, clean coal such as v>e always 
furnish you with when you order from our 
yard. 

For holiday comfort, or when baking 
your cakes and good things, provide yourself 



%~ y with 



GOOD, CLEAN COAL 

FROM 

GLOBE COAL COMPANY 



611 West Grand Avenue 
Mutual Phone 1658 Iowa Phone 678 




Dining Room Furniture 

to please all tastes and all purposes 

CHASE* & WEST'S 

712 Walnut Street 



To Readers of The Midwestern: 

We will give away absolutely free a fiDe pair Of Lan- 
ders. Fray & Clark's steel game carvers with any one of 
our Turkey and Game China Sets sold before Thanksgiving 
day, provided i ou bring this ad with you. Sets range from 
$9.00 to $40 00. No duplicates. 



If you want your 

Thanksgiving Dinner Table ^'^j™ 1 /'* 1 " 

Cut Glass and Silverware 

comes p ranli Schlampp & Co., Jewelers 

Corner Sixth and Locust Streets 




Meadow Gold Butter 

Manufactured by 

Beatrice Creamery Co. 




Everything first-class in Groceries for Thanks- 
giving Dinner can be found at CIvELAND'g 

GROCERY, iji 42:1 Sixth Ave and Tenth and r,ocusl Sis, 






THE PINNACLE OFj 

Confectioner's Art 
Sahftsmta 

(Eliorolatpa 

SOMETHING NEW 

HAS NO SUPERIOR 
ANDfNO EQUAL 

SOLD EVERYWHERE 





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MANUFACTURED BY 

DAVIDSON BROS. COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

ICE CREAM AND 
CONFECTIONERY 




CHASE & WEST 



SELL 



Everything 
for the Home 



This is the most popular 
chair on the market 



Furniture, Carpets, Draperies 



Jill goods marked in plain figures. 




. . THE . . 
WHITE RIBBON SHOE 

Has inside a coupon which is removed 
by the dealer at sale and saved for his 
local White Ribbon Society. We redeem 
them at 5c each IN CASH. 

Officially Indorsed by the W. C. T. U. 

Veritably "The New Shoe for Women" 



Offered in over 200 styles 
and leathers. 



Built for wi men! 



A "Peer of Quality and Excellence! 



Made only by the 



White Ribbon Shoe Company, 



SALESMAN MUST RETAIN THIS 
COUPON R» COLLECTOR 



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Fort Dodge, Iowa 



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GOOD COFFEE 



Nearly every way of making 
coffee has some good points, 
but 



The Electric Percolator 



plan combines them all 
Extracts the delicious flavor 
without the injurious elements 

Simple, Safe, Rapid, Economical 

No alcohol to spill on the 
polished table. 

DES MOINES ELECTRIC CO. 

Corner 5th and Mulberry St. 
Iowa Phone 596 Mutual Phone 1326 



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NEW HUBBELL BU1LD|\G AT EIGHTH AND WALNUT 



The actual work of construction on the 
Hubbell building, a reinforced concrete 
building, and the only one of its kind in 
the state, was started April 15, T908, and 
completed and occupied by the tenants 
October 1, 1908. This building is five 
stories high and 132x134 feet on the 
ground. The contractors would have 
completed this building four weeks soon- 
er had they not been delayed in receiving 
material, and had almost continual rain 
during the month of June. This demon- 
strates the quick time in which a building 
of this character can be erected. 

In this reinforced building all, floors, 
beams, girders, and columns are com- 
posed of reinforced concrete : that is, con- 
crete in which are bedded steel rods and 
mesh. 

Entering into the construction of this 
building were 104 cars of crushed stone, 
10,000 barrels of cement, seventy-five 
cars sand, fifteen cars of reinforcing 



steel, 100,000 pressed brick for the street 
fronts, 112,000 pressed brick for facing 
the alley walls, 270,000 hollow brick 
which were vised for lining all walls on 
the inner side. 

All partitions were erected of hollow 
tile, so the only portions of the building 
which would be liable.to damage by fire, 
would be the maple floor which is laid 
on top of the concrete floor : and the win- 
dow frames and sash in the two street 
fronts. All other windows have metal 
frames and sash. As the building is 
equipped with the latest and most ap- 
proved system of sprinkler the damage to 
the building in case of fire would be prac- 
tically nothing. It would be impossible 
in this building for a fire to spread from 
one floor to another. 

Two freight and three passenger eleva- 
tors, and an up-to-date heating plant 
make this the most modern building in 
the country. 



FIRMS EMPLOYED IN CONSTRUCTION OF THE HUBBELL BUILDING 

Cement — Northwestern States Portland Cement Co., Mason City 

Cut Stone — Alexander King Co., Galesburg, 111. 

Pressed Brick for Street fronts — Iron Clay Brick Co., Columbus, Ohio 

Pressed Brick for Alley walls — Des Moines Clay Mfg. Co. 

Hollow Tile for Partitions — Des Moines Clay Mfg. Co. 

Hollow Brick for Lining walls — Twin City Brick Co., St. Paul, Minn. 

Reinforcing Steel— Northwestern Expanded Metal Co., Chicago, 111. 

Ornamental Iron— Standard Co., Chicago, 111. 

Elevators — Reedy Elevator Co., Chicago, 111. 

Sheet Metal Work— St. John BarquistCo., Des Moines, la. 

Electric Wiring — John Collins, Des Moines, la. 

Fixtures for Stores —Jaeger Mfg. Co. & Martin Culbertson Co., Des Moines, la. 

Interior Finish — Farley & Loetsch Mfg. Co., Dubuque, la. 

Sprinkler System — Niagara Fire Extinguisher Co., Chicago, 111. 




The Electrical Work in this Building 

was done by 

JOHN C0LLIN5 

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR 

All the Wiring, and all the Fixtures were installed and furnished 
by us giving a lighting capacity of 2,200 Lights. This is positively 
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THE MIDWESTERN 



FRANK CRAM 

General Contractor 

SOS GRAND AVE. 

I wrecked the two-story building on 
this site, did the excavating and deliv- 
ered all material used in this building. 
I am now wrecking the three-story Des Moines National Bank building 
at Sixth and Walnut, and have a large amount of building material, 
such as lumber, windows, doors, boilers, radiators, steam pipes, and all 
kinds of plumbing fixtures for sale. 



IN ELEGANT QUARTERS 

The new millinery parlors of Brady & 
Egan have proven the center of attrac- 
tion for the women of Des Moines who 
love beautiful millinery, during the past 
ten days. Because of their exclusive 
patronage, this progressive firm have 
long contemplated an establishment of 
their own, and the thronged parlors since 
their opening have proven the wisdom of 
their decision. 

The very latest and most exclusive de- 
signs in millinery may be seen here, and 
the good taste of the proprietors is seen 
in all of their designs. First class trim- 
mers are employed, who come from New 
York especially for the season. 

The many friends of both Miss Brady 
and Mrs. Egan congratulate them on 
opening up a strictly modern, up-to-date 
establishment, exclusively devoted to 
millinery. Their parlors are located at 
803 Locust street. 



THE PURE FOOD SHOW 

The Pure Food Show, managed by the 
Retail Grocers' Association, of Des 
Moines, is now being held at 812-814 
Walnut Street. Des Moines people have 
grown to look forward to this show with 
great interest; and Mr. Beaner, secretary 
of the association, assures us that this 
year's show will be the greatest ever held. 
This show offers a fine opportunity for 
the public to test the merits of various 



pure food products, as well as a place for 
manufacturing houses to get their ar- 
ticles well advertised. 



IN NEW HANDS 

Mr. R. E. Samis, manager of the Ra- 
cine-Sattley Co., has secured an interest 
in the Fulton Market, and with W. D. 
Leser as manager, they are making this 
the leading market in the city. Every- 
thing in their line is handled here and at 
reasonable prices. The best families in 
Des Moines are patrons of the Fulton 
Market and they will find that its splen- 
did reputation will not only be preserved, 
but even surpassed under the new man- 
agement. 



The Poncele Water Company has 
changed hands, and is doing business on 
a bigger scale than ever before in its 
history. Of the new company J. J. Sham- 
baugh is the president, H. P. Grabill, 
vice-president, J, B. Weede, secretary and 
treasurer. The transfer was made Sep- 
tember 24th and great improvements in 
the property have been made since that. 

The capacity of the plant has been in- 
creased from 300 gallons per day to 
1,500 gallons, and new machinery has 
been installed throughout. Their gingef 
ale and root beer are the finest on the 
market and the Poncele is making friends 
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LAFAYETTE YOUNG 
Editor of the Des Moines Capital 



The Midwestern 



VOLUME III 



NOVEMBER, 1908 



NUMBER 3 



TAFT AND THE PRESIDENCY 



By Lafayette Young 

Editor of the Des Moines Capital 



The people of the United States are 
considering Judge William Howard 
Taft as president. I believe he will be 
elected. Whether he is or not he will 
receive the votes of millions. 

He is recommended to the people by 
President Roosevelt in the strongest 
terms. The president's language could 
not be more earnest. In a letter to 
Conrad Kohrs, of Helena, Montana, un- 
der date of September 9th, the Presi- 
dent said : 

"The true friend of reform, the true 
foe of abuses, is the man who steadily 
perseveres in righting wrong, in war- 
ring against abuses, but whose char- 
acter and training are such that he never 
promises what he cannot perform, that 
he always a little more than makes 
good what he does promise, and that, 
while steadily advancing, he never per- 
mits himself to be led into foolish ex- 
cesses which would damage the very 
cause he champions. 

"In Mr. Taft we have a man who 
combines all of these qualities to a de- 
gree which no other man in our public 
life since the civil war has surpassed. To 
■ 1 flaming hatred of injustice, to a scorn 
of all that is base and mean, to a hearty 
sympathy with the oppressed, he unites 
entire disinterestedness, courage, both 
moral and physical, of the very highest 
type. 

"The honest man of means, the hon- 
est and law-abiding business man, can 
feel safe in his hands because of the 
very fact that the dishonest man of 
great wealth, the man who swindles or 
robs his fellows, would not so much as 
dare to defend his evil-doing in Mr. 



Taft's presence. The honest wage work- 
er, the honest laboring man, the honest 
farmer, the honest mechanic or small 
trader, or man of small means, can feel 
that in a peculiar sense Mr. Taft will be 
his representative because of the very 
fact that he has the same scorn for the 
demagogue that he has for the corrup- 
tionist." 

Next to the judgment of President 
Roosevelt will stand the judgment ot 
Governor Hughes, of New York. Gov- 
ernor Hughes in a speech at Youngs- 
town, Ohio, said : 

"The sagacity, steadiness of charac- 
ter, firmness and sound judgment of the 
Chief Executive must be the security 
of the nation in many a trying emer- 
gency. The country needs a man rock- 
based in sound conviction and funda- 
mental principle, in whose good judg- 
ment in any difficulty all may feel se- 
cure, and such a man pre-eminently is 
William H. Taft. 

"Our opponents seem to regard the 
questions before us as simply involving 
a programme of legislation or of con- 
stitutional amendment. But first and 
chiefly we are electing a President, the 
executive of the nation. Nor should 
we in considering legislative proposals 
forget this. Now, there is no man in 
the country better fitted properly to 
preside over and direct the varied busi- 
ness of the executive department than 
Mr. Taft. He already knows it thor- 
oughly. He has rare executive ability. 
No one is better qualified than he to do 
the work which under the Constitution 
the President is called upon to per- 
form." 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



President Roosevelt has had an op- 
portunity to know Judge Taft and he 
does know him. He admires him be- 
cause he has been able to do things. If 
he were not a man of action, Roosevelt 
would not be so enthusiastically for him. 

If Taft had done no other work than 
to have organized and put upon its feet 
the Philippine Government, he could be 
considered of presidential size. He went 
among enemies and made them his 
friends. He established a civil govern- 
ment when the military considered such 
a movement immature. He established 
a judicial system which I consider his 
greatest triumph. The courts in the 
Philippines, under Spanish rule, had 
been notoriously inefficient and corrupt. 
Poor men seldom resorted to them to 
secure their rights because they knew 
the history of the courts and were fa- 
miliar with their methods. The poor 
people were at the mercy of feudal 
leaders and bosses until Taft established 
the smaller courts and created judicial 
officers ranking with our justices of the 
peace. Now, these courts are appreciat- 
ed by the people. They are sought as a 
means of justice. The judges of the 
higher courts are Americans. The 
justices of the peace are natives. Cor- 
ruption among the judges is unknown. 
Trial by jury has not been introduced 
and cannot be for many years. When 
in the Philippines, a judge of the Court 
of First Instance told me the people 
were coming to his court in increasing 
numbers and that when their cases 
were stated and he rendered his de- 
cision, explaining to them the reasons 
for his decision, they went away satis- 
fied. The judge I refer to was from 
Tennessee and had entered the Philip- 
pines as. a colonel. He placed the 
courts next to the public schools in 
power for good in the Islands. Those 
who heard Judge Taft in his speech in 
Plymouth Congregational church, heard 
him say that the Philippine Islands 
were nearer to his heart than any other 
thing in American life. He would 
make any sacrifice for the Philippines or 
the Filipino people. His affection for 
the islanders and his enthusiasm for 
their cause give an illustration of the 
great hearted man which he is. Anoth- 
er great achievement consists of the 
friendly . relation established with the 
Catholic church, its authorities and its 



people. The Philippine Islands are 
Catholic and no government there could 
succeed without the friendly co-opera- 
tion of the church. Judge Taft was dip- 
lomat enough to secure this friendly co- 
operation without the sacrifice of a 
single American interest or principle. 

As time goes on the bond of sym- 
pathy between the Filipino Catholics 
and the Americans charged with the 
responsibility of government, grows 
closer, because the harmonious relation 
established represents justice to both 
sides. The credit for these Conditions 
belongs to William Howard Taft. He 
was enabled to conciliate and bring to- 
gether these necessary interests because 
he is a big man mentally, and high 
minded. He is one of the few men who 
can accomplish big things without dis- 
cord or friction, and without the sur- 
render of a thing that ought not to be 
surrendered. Judge Taft is not the most 
popular man among the Americans in 
the Philippine Islands, because he re- 
fused to allow the Islands to be monop- 
olized or exploited by monopolies or ad- 
venturers. His motto was "the Philip- 
pines for the Filipinos." Time is demon- 
strating the wisdom of his policy. He 
favored the establishment of the Phil- 
ippine General Assembly, a legislative 
body fashioned after the legislative 
bodies in the States. Many Americans 
familiar with the situation thought it 
too soon to make the experiment but 
Congress took the advice of Judge Taft . 
and the legislative body was authorized. 
Judge Taft's last journey to the Islands 
was to make a formal opening of the 
General Assembly. Not much has been 
accomplished, it is true, but the Assem- 
bly is an educational force and an ob- 
ject lesson which will be valuable. Judge 
Taft believes in trusting the Filipinos as 
rapidly as their spirit of loyalty will 
justify. The wonderful educational 
system established in the Islands with a 
half million Filipino children in Ameri- 
can schools must be accredited to Judge 
Taft. In fifteen years Spanish will be 
a dead language in the Philippine Isl- 
ands. The American people are not 
paying heavily for their enterprise in 
the far east and are getting more for 
their money than they can now realize. 
It was McKinley who sent Judge Taft 
to the Philippines. He selected him be- 
cause he combined the qualifications of 



TAFT AND THE PRESIDENCY 



19 



a great lawyer with the suavity, courtesy 
and fairness of the successful diplomat. 
William Howard Taft was a federal 
judge, holding a life appointment. He 
was under forty-five years of age. His 
prospect for promotion in judicial work 
was bright. But the prospect of doing 
good in a great governmental work 
caused him to give up his good home, 
his quiet life, his delightful home 
friendships and to sail away with all the 
spirit of a missionary to the Far East. 
After his wonderful work had pro- 
gressed for four years, he was appointed 
Secretary of War. In his new position 
his relation to the Philippines was inti- 
mate. He continued his work as a col- 
onizer. During his service as Secretary 
of War, by his diplomacy and his sense 
of justice, he restored peace in Cuba, a 



peace which has been so profound that 
the American people have forgotten that 
we are to-day governing Cuba. Cuba is 
under the American war department. 
Judge Taft has given evidence of the 
highest administrative ability. He will 
come to the presidency as well qualified 
for the great duties of the office as any 
man who has ever held the place. I 
think it could be said that he is the best 
qualified at the beginning. He has had 
more experience and a better oppor- 
tunity to be qualified than any of his 
predecessors. Of all the republican 
leaders, Taft is the one for the presi- 
dency. It is a glorious and bright omen 
for the country when men like Roose- 
velt, Taft and Hughes are found heroic- 
ally contending for the right, and im- 
movably standing for the best there is. 



HOME REVISITED 

This is my home again! Once more I 

hail 
The dear old gables and the creaking 

vanes ; 
It stands all flecked with shadows in the 

moon, 
Patient, and white, and woeful. 'Tis so 

still, 
It seems to brood upon its youthful years, 
When children sported on its ringing 

floors, 
And music trembled through its happy 

rooms. 
Twas here I spent my youth, as far re- 
moved 
From the great heavings, hopes, and 

fears of man, 
As unknown aisles asleep in unknown 

seas. 
Gone my pure heart, and with it happy 

days ; 
No manna falls around me from on high ; 
Barely from off the desert of my life 
I gather patience and severe content. 
— Alexander Smith. 



TWO PICTURES 

An old farm-house with meadows wide, 
And sweet with clover on each side ; 
A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out 
The door with woodbine wreathed about, 
And wishes his one thought all day: 
"Oh, if I could but fly away 
From this dull spot the world to see, 

How happy, happy, happy, 

How happy I should be !" 

Amid the city's constant din, 
A man who round the world has been, 
Who, 'mid the tumult and the throng, 
Is thinking, thinking all day long : 
"Oh, could I only tread once more 
The field-path to the farm-house door, 
The old green meadow could I see, 

How happy, happy, happy, 

How happy I should be !" 

— Anonymous. 




First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Grange, Illinois 



WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 
STANDS FOR 

By George Shaw Cook 

Christian Science Committee on Publication for Illinois 



One of the editors of the Saturday 
Evening Herald, Chicago, wrote in a re- 
cent issue of that paper as follows : 

"In all our cities, and throughout 
every state, can now be found Christian 
Science churches. This growth has not 
been accomplished without the overcom- 
ing of great obstacles. The virility of 
this Science of Mind Healing has aston- 
ished those who have not accepted nor 
who do not understand the teachings. 
Like all great movements it has had 
strong opposition to overcome. Its ad- 
herents have been ridiculed, abused and 
even persecuted, but as the gales cause 
the oaks to strike deeper and firmer 
their roots so have opposition, misrepre- 
sentation and calumny affected Chris- 
tian Science." 



The Christian Science movement 
expanded until its outposts have at least 
touched the borders of every civilized 
nation, not because of the opposition to 
which reference is made in the foregoing 
quotation, but in spite of that opposi- 
tion. What is the reason for this remark- 
able growth? What does the Christian 
Science movement stand for? To quote 
again from the article above referred to. 

"It is the custom of Christian Scien- 
tists to build beyond the demands of the 
present congregation, with the expecta- 
tion of a steady increase of members, 
and the churches are usually filled when 
ready for occupancy. Redundancy of 
ornamentation would be out of harmony 
with Christian Science, which agrees 
with Paul's injunction to "Use the world 




as not abusing it." Likewise a want of 
proper beauty, convenience and comfort 
would fail to comply with the demands 
of Christian Science. Traditional cus- 
toms and ideas do not affect the conduct 
of the Christian Scientists, which is gov- 
erned by a fixed principle. In the build 
ing of the churches convenience, com- 
fort and suitable adornment are combin- 
ed, so that in their houses of worship 
there shall be nothing to interfere with 
the contemplation of things spiritual." 
"The extreme simplicity of all these 
churches and their freedom from ancient 
and mediaeval decorations, the absence 
of pagan symbols adapted to ornamen- 
tation and the lack of antiquated notions 
— these features impress one with the 
fact that Christian Scientists have de- 
parted from tradition and are animated 
by real and unfettered purpose." 



What is the basis of this expectancy ; 
what the inspiration of this "unfettered 
purpose"? What does the Christian 
Science Church stand for? 

Before attempting to briefly answer 
these momentous questions, I will call 
the attention of the reader to the illus- 
trations which are published in connec- 
tion with this article. These pictures rep- 
resent some of the Churches of Christ, 
Scientist, in Illinois which stand as the 
outward symbols of the Christian Sci- 
ence movement, a movement which is 
now generally recognized as an impor- 
tant factor in modern affairs. It will be 
noted that most of these church build- 
ings are severely classic in style and that 
some of them are of the purest Grecian 
Ionic type. Classic architecture is not 
always however, a characteristic of 
Christian Science church edifices. In- 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




deed, throughout the country will be 
found many Christian Science churches 
which are beautiful expressions of the 
Gothic style. It will be seen that no ar- 
chitectural type, however satisfying, can 
do more than to stand for a time as the 
externalized expression of that perfect 
harmony which Christian Science de- 
clares to be the natural outcome of di- 
vine Principle. Just so the Christian Sci- 
ence church organization, while admir- 
able in simplicity and in doing a most 
valuable work, but prefigures the true 
church which will reveal its presence 
when the "kingdoms of this world" have 
in deed and in truth become the "king- 
dom of our Lord and His Christ." Mrs. 
Eddy, the discoverer and founder of 
Christian Science, has denned this true 
church in the Christian Science text- 
book, Science and Health with Key to 
the Scriptures, page 583, as "the struc- 
ture of Truth and Love; whatever rests 
upon and proceeds from divine Princi- 
ple." Although abstract, this definition 
is of much practical value to humanity, 
and is supplemented by the further de- 
finition: "The Church is that institution 



which affords proof of its utility and is 
found elevating the race, rousing the 
dormant understanding from material 
beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual 
ideas and the demonstration of divine 
Science, thereby casting out devils, or 
error, and healing the sick." 

Without this adaptation to the needs of 
mankind, the Christian Science church 
as an institution would have no good rea- 
son for existence. In order to justify 
its presence among men, the Church of 
Christ, Scientist, must realize Mrs. 
Eddy's definition and must be ready to 
answer not theoretically but practically 
the question which serves as a title to 
this article: "What does Christian Sci- 
ence stand for?" 

In the endeavor to answer this perti- 
nent question, the writer asks the priv- 
ilege of saying that his answer, however 
inadequate, will not be that of the the- 
orist so much as of one who has had 
some practical experience as a demon- 
strator of the principle and the rule of 
Christian Science Mind healing. 

What docs Christian Science stand 
for? Christian Science stands for the 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STANDS FOR 







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i 



First Church of Christ, Scientist, Rock Island, Illinois 



fundamental fact that ( tod is good ; that 
He is all Good and always good; that 
God is illimitable Spirit, imponderable 
Substance, infinite Intelligence, infallible 
Wisdom, immutable Truth, interminable 
Life, ineffable Love. It stands for a per- 



fect spiritual universe as the creation of 
God who is Spirit, and for a perfect 
spiritual man as the likeness of God. It 
stands for the universal Fatherhood and 
Motherhood of God, and for the com- 
plete and perfect brotherhood of man. It 




First Church of Christ, Scientist, Peoria, Illinois 



THE MIDWESTERN 




Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago 



stands for Christ as the spiritual idea 
01 God and for Christ Jesus as the per- 
fect ideal of divine sonship. It stands for 
Jesus of Nazareth as the model Chris- 
tian, the master metaphysician, and the 
highest demonstrator of man's unity 
with God. 

Christian Science stands for the law 
of God and the government of God and 
for the absolute supremacy of God's 
law and government. It stands for the 
preservation and protection of man and 
the universe according to the law of 
God. It stands for God's law as the 
law of life, health, and perfection to 
man, for God's law as the law of oppor- 
tunity, activity, and success to man. 

Christian Science stands for freedom 
from fear, for salvation from sin, and 
consequently for man's deliverance 



from disease and death. It stands for 
progress and prosperity — the progress 
which is the law of God, and the pros- 
perity which results from the enforce- 
ment of that law. It stands for peace 
and plenty — for the peace of God which 
passeth (human) understanding, and the 
abiding sense of plenty which is an es- 
sential element of true peace. It stands 
for mental integrity and moral purity; 
for fidelity and faithfulness; for right 
relationship, unity of purpose, co-opera- 
tion and reciprocity, brotherly love, 
charity and compassion. It stands for 
heaven and harmony — the harmony 
which is heaven within, and for all that 
makes for the establishment of the king- 
dom of heaven or harmony, here. 

Christian Science stands for the elim- 
ination of evil from the individual and 




WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STANDS FOR 



25 







Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago 






from society. It stands for the removal 
of limitation and for man's dominion 
over circumstances and environment. It 
stands for the expulsion of all that is 
impure, unholy, baneful, and discord- 
ant, for the cancellation of all that 
causes or perpetuates suffering and 
ilistress. It stands for man's recovery 
from diseased conditions and for his 
restoration to health or wholeness, now. 

Christian Science stands for a ration- 
al, spiritual interpretation of the Scrip- 
tures and the adoption of the "inspired 
Word of the Bible" as a "sufficient 
guide to eternal Life." (Science and 
Health, page 497.) 

It stands for all of this and more. 

Having told something of that for 
which Christian Science stands, and hav- 
ing indicated to some extent that which 
ii claims to do for those who are sick 
and in trouble, may it not be of inter- 
est to say something about what Chris- 
tian Science is doing to fulfill its prom- 
ises and something of the way in which 
it is being done? 

In the state of Illinois alone there arc 
thousands of people who, through the 
ministry of Christian Science, have been 
healed of disease and redeemed from sin 



and many who have been turned back 
from the very gates of death. Among 
these thousands there are those who 
have been raised from beds of unspeak- 
able pain, those who have been rescued 
from depths of degradation, those who 
have been freed from the bondage of 
poverty and incompetency. It is pos- 
sible that some of these people would 
have recovered from their sickness un- 
der other forms of treatment or with- 
out any treatment. It is probable that 
some of them would have been reformed 
by other means and that some would 
have become prosperous in another 
way, but it is a fact that the great ma- 
jority were utterly hopeless and ap- 
parently helpless in their misery until 
Christian Science showed them the way 
out of it. These people, it is safe to 
say, would still be in the hell of physi- 
cal and mental torment, and some in- 
deed would have passed into the "valley 
of the shadow of death" had Christian 
Science not come into their experience 
just when it did. 

I low were these people healed of dis- 
eases which in many instances had 
1 affled the most skillful physicians? 
They were healed by the Christ truth 



THE MIDWESTERN 










First Churchlof Christ, Scientist, Chicago 



which takes away the sins and heals 
the sickness of the world. They were 
healed by reason of the knowledge that 
sickness is unnatural to God's man and 
that therefore man need not fear or en- 
dure it. These people have been lifted 
from the maelstrom of poverty and vice 
bj gaining the understanding that pov- 
erty is an imposition and vice a fraud, 
and that God's man cannot be imposed 
upon or defrauded ; by being convinced 
that the fear of evil is unnecessary for 
the reason that every phase of evil is 
temporal and destructible ; by being ed- 
ucated into the understanding that none 
of the ills to which flesh is heir are part 
of the real or right man. Thus have 
thev been enabled to prove that these 
"lis are entirely foreign to the man who 
s created for the purpose of manifesting 



and expressing the power and perfec- 
tion of his Creator. 

Christian Scientists believe that they 
have demonstrated by results already at- 
tained that Mrs. Eddy has surely dis- 
covered and correctly set forth the prin- 
ciple and law by which Jesus healed all 
manner of sickness and all manner of 
disease among the people of his time. 
Jesus said of his work, "I can of mine 

own self do nothing the Father 

that dwelleth in me, He doeth the 
works." The Father referred to by 
Jesus as being the Principle of his works 
was, according to Christian Science, the 
divine Mind. Jesus further said to his 
followers, "The works that I do shall 
ye do also and greater works." Chris- 
tian Scientists believe that as followers 
of Christ Jesus they have a right to do 



WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STANDS FOR 




Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago 



his works. They believe that the heal- 
ing which he did was lawful and was 
clone according to a principle which he 
Understood. They believe that this Prin- 
ciple is God. They believe that divine 
Intelligence is available to man now just 
as it was in the time of Jesus. They 
believe that Cod and His eternal Christ 
are entirely adequate to save under all 
Circumstances and from all conditions. 
Christian Scientists are, however, sensi- 
ble of the fact that they have only be- 
gun to understand and apply the Christ 



method of healing and do not pretend 
that they are always successful in its 
application, yet they do know that 
Christian Science has proved itself to be 
efficacious in the healing of thousands 
of eases of disease, acute and chronic, 
mental ami physical. This is recorded 
fact and should silence the claims often 
made that Christian Science is good on- 
1 ■ for nervousness and hysteria, claims 
which are usually associated with the 
erroneous statement that cures wrought 
by Christian Science can all be explained 





Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago 







WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STANDS FOR 




First Church of Christ Scientist, Wilmette, Illinois 



as resulting from blind faith, will power, 
or mental suggestion. 

Christian Science shows the victim of 
poverty and limitation that these evils 
are due to a false sense of man's separa- 
tion from his all-knowing principle and 
a consequent belief in the necessity for 
dependence upon human ways and 
means. It explains to the poverty- 
stricken individual that what really 
causes his suffering is fear of poverty. 
It shows him that while philanthropy 
or benevolence might temporarily re- 
move the condition of poverty, nothing 
can permanently destroy the fear of 
tack but a knowledge of man's insepar- 
able unity with the one Mind which in- 
cludes within itself an inexhaustible and 
ever-available abundance of all that is 
necessary to man's welfare. 

Christian Science woo s the sinner 
from his sin by convincing him that he 
need not fear sin and cannot love it 
because it is not of God. It shows him 
that God does not create sin, that He 
does not permit its existence, and that 
lb- does not make use of it. It teaches 
him that God is of too pure eyes to be- 
hold evil and that man as the likeness of 
I !od cannot know something which God 
does not know. It explains that evil 
i? entirely illegitimate and contrary to 
the will of God. Thus it induces the 



sinner to abandon his belief in the real- 
ity of sin and enables him to win for- 
giveness by forsaking sin. Therefore 
ii will be seen that it is a mistake to 
suppose that in teaching the unreality 
of sin, Christian Science encourages the 
indulgence of sin. The facts are that it 
awakens the sinner to the absolute ne- 
cessity of gaining a love for goodness 
that will enable him to willingly abandon 
not only the flagrant forms of immoral- 
ity, but also the more subtle phases of 
evil. 

All of this mighty work of regenera- 
tion and healing is being accomplished 
because of the discovery and develop- 
ment of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy. 
Her clear perception of the truth about 
God and man, her fearless presentation 
of that truth, and her wise establishment 
and leadership of the Christian Science 
movement have not only endeared her 
tc those who are called Christian Scien- 
tists, but have won for her a place in 
the esteem of many persons outside the 
Christian Science church who regard 
her as one of the world's greatest teach- 
ers and reformers. Her book, Science 
and Health, is by those who best know 
its worth valued "above rubies," and 
the revelation of scientific Christianity 
which it contains is regarded by them 
as the "pearl without price." 




REMINISCENSES OF FORT LARAMIE, 

WYOMING 

By Major D. Robinson, U. S. A. Retd. 

The fort is situated on the left bank 
c! the Laramie River, about a mile and 
a half above where it empties into the 
Platte River, and at one time was the 
center of extensive hunting grounds 
where countless herds of buffalo 
roamed. 

Sixty years ago two trappers, named 
Soublett and Campbell, coming to that 
region to hunt, erected here a small 
stockade fort, inside of which they built 
huts, making themselves comparatively 
secure against roving bands of Crow 
and Pawnee Indians that came to hunt 
buffalo. 

Some time afterwards Soublett and 
Campbell sold out to Bridger and other 
trappers, who went into partnership 
with the American Fur Company. The 
company thus organized offered in- 
ducements to the Ogallallah Sioux of 
the north to come and hunt buffalo for 
them. They came in large numbers, 
strong enough to drive out the Crows 
and Pawnees, and killed immense num- 
bers of buffalo for the robes alone, 
which they traded off to the fur com- 
pany for trinkets, pieces of iron and 
"fire-water" and fire arms. After 
pressing and baling the robes and hides 
they were shipped on rafts and floated 
down the rivers to St. Louis, the near- 
est shipping point. 

The company rebuilt the fort and 
named it "Fort John," but changed it 
soon after to the name of the river that 
had been named after one of the French 
voyagers who had been killed by the 
A.rapahoes while trapping on the 
stream. 

In 1849 the government purchased 
the fort from the fur company, paying 
$3,000, and in July of the same year it 
was garrisoned by companies C. and D. 
o!' the Mounted Rifles, (now the Third 
Cavalry) under command of Major 
Sanderson. In the following month 




MAJOR D. ROBINSON 

Captain Ketchum with his company, G. 
Sixth Infantry, arrived, additional quar- 
ters for these troops being constructed. 

At that time the tide of emigration 
flowed overland to the gold fields of 
California. The fort was on the direct 
route — the intermediate objective point 
for emigrants traveling from the Mis- 
souri, a journey of forty or fifty days, 
and a haven of rest to the weary argo- 
nauts. During that year many tho 
sands arrived and passed on. 

The troops were kept on the trot 
east and west of the fort convoying the 
so-called "prairie schooners," in which 



u- 



REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 




Officers Quarters on North and West Sides of Fort 



whole families lived and slept. Many 
ot them are now, no doubt, millionaires, 
and by priority among the first families 
on the Pacific Coast. 

On the 19th of August, 1854, a train 
o* Latter Day Saints (Mormons) 
camped about ten miles below the fort 
on the Platte, where there was a large 
camp of Indians. The Saints lost a cow 
or steer and reported to the command- 
ing officer that it had been stolen by 
the Indians. Of course, it was his duty 
to trace it up and see that reparation 
was made. 

An officer, Lieutenant Grattan, 6th 
Infantry, with a detachment of thirty 
soldiers and two howitzers, was ordered 
to the Indian camp. The lieutenant 
halted his detachment at a convenient 
distance from it, and entered the camp 
alone, where he had a long talk with 
Mattoiway, the chief. What transpired 
will never be known. 

Grattan returned to his detachment, 
had the guns trained on the camp and 
gave the command : "Fire !" When the 
smoke cleared away none of the Indians 
fell ; the guns were loaded with blank- 
cartridges. The Indians rushed upon 
them and killed Grattan and all of the 
soldi en but one, who made his escape, 
wounded, and returned to the fort dur- 
ing the night to tell of the fate that be- 
fell his comrades. 

Four years afterwards I visited the 
scene of the massacre, which was 
marked by a large pile of boulders as a 
monument, tinder which the soldiers lie. 



I visited it again twenty years after 
the former period. The monument still 
remained unchanged, and presume it re- 
mains so until the present day. 

The old fort had its traditional love 
as well as its sorrows. 

The great chief, Spotted Tail, had a 
pretty daughter whom he wished to 
have educated like her white sisters, 
and at an early age she was sent east 
for that purpose, with the understanding 
that she should be sent back to the pa- 
rental care at a certain time. 

Time passed, and at length she re- 
turned to the tepee of her father, an 
educated and refined Indian maiden, 
resuming the garb of her race. The 
chief was proud of his daughter, but 
withal unhappy, realizing that her edu- 
cation unfitted her for tribal associa- 
tions and the life before her. She was 
at proud and haughty as a princess, and 
avoided all companionship with those 
about her. She was wooed by the 
bravest of the young warriers and treat- 
ed their advances with scorn. She was 
disliked by all of the other Indian maid- 
ens, but she was the daughter of their 
chief and that fact alone saved her from 
being dragged down to their level. 

The Indian camp was in the vicinity 
of the fort, which she visited at guard 
mounting and parades to hear the 
music. On these occasions she stood 
alone and apart from all others, intently 
listening to the sweet strains that re- 
vived memories of her school days. The 



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throbbing of her heart told her that she 
loved more than music. 

Yes, she secretly loved the dashing 
young adjutant who presided at all 
parades, but kept her secret so well that 
he never knew of it until after her death, 
although there were others who did. 

Day after day she came and went, on- 
L known at the fort as the chief's 
daughter who loved music, and vanished 
as soon as it had ceased. 

Finally her visits became less frequent 
and soon stopped altogether. Her ab- 
sence was noticed at the fort, which 
brought forth inquiries and the discov- 
ery that she was sick and pining away. 

Spotted Tail sent for the young officer 
to come and save his daughter, but alas 1 
it was too late; she died before he 
reached the camp. 

The Sioux and Cheyennes place thei. - 
honored dead on platforms in the tops 
of high trees. 

On the rising ground, a short distance 
outside the fort, could be seen an ele- 
vated platform supported by four posts, 
which had been erected by Spotted Tail, 
and on which, dressed in all her finery 
and trinkets, rested the remains of his 
daughter on a bed of sage and cedar 
boughs. After he and all of the Indians 
went away, some kind friends buried the 
crumbling remains beneath the platform 
where wild flowers grew and blossomed 
year after year. 

There was a strange fascination about 
that spot. Sunday after Sunday you 
would see officers, their wives and chil- 
dren and soldiers as well, strolling out 
in the direction of the Indian maiden's 
grave, and but few visitors left the fort 
without going to it, frequently carrying 
away (as a memento) a blossom or sprig 
of sage. 

Laramie was not only the oldest fort 
in the west, but its history also has 
been one of the most eventful. 

If the walls of the old quarters could 
speak, what a volume of unwritten 
stories they might reveal. 

There is hardly a trooper or company 
of infantry (even artillery) of the old 
army, and at a later period of the re- 
organized army, but what has encamped 
or been stationed there at some time. 

It has been, previous to that period, 
the station of some of the most dis- 
tinguished officers of the civil war, both 
north and south. 



Of those I will mention a few whom 
I have known : Summer, Hancock, Gib- 
bon, Canby and C. F. Smith. The John- 
sons, Lee, Longstreet, Hills, Ewell and 
Sibley. Though last, I will mention 
Harney — the most distinguished Indian 
fighter of his day. 

It also has been a base of supplies for 
the Utah expedition; and not only of 
supplies, but of military operations 
against the Indians of the northwest by 
General Crook and other commanders. 

It was here that Red Cloud, the great 
chief of the Ogallallah Sioux made a 
treaty. This was brought about by the 
wise counsel of General Flint, colonel 
of the 4th infantry, and commandant of 
the fort. By 1870 he had prepared their 
minds and induced them to treat. Red 
Cloud and a delegation of sub-chiefs 
went to Washington to have a talk with 
the president, all of whom received 
marked attention and many presents 
while there. 

During the absence of Red Cloud, 
8000 Ogallallahs were encamped over 
the river in the Platte Valley, about two 
miles west of the fort, under chief 
American Horse, who stood next high- 
est to Red Cloud. 

Every day from the time he went 
away, American Horse and other mem- 
bers of tribe visited the commandant at 
his office and were at his quarters for 
the purpose of getting information from 
him about various matters, but more 
particularly about the success of Red 
Cloud's mission at Washington. 

They knew he could talk over the 
wires, but had no idea of the distance 
nor expense. It was certainly a great 
mystery to them ; just as it has been to 
more civilized people when this mode of 
communication was first known. 

Sometimes the commandant would 
gratify their wishes so as to keep them 
it! a peaceful mood until their good chief 
returned. At times they were restless 
and impatient by reason of his pro- 
longed absence, or of some misunder- 
standing that arose about rations. 

Red Cloud gave his word to General 
Flint that no trouble should occur dur- 
ing his absence, and American Horse 
faithfully carried it out by daily talks to 
the tribe, suggested by the general. 

The return of Red Cloud was hailed 
with delight, not only by the Ogallallahs 
but by us as well. 



CENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 




A Distant View of the Fort. 



It was not a pleasant feeling to have 
such a large number of impatient and 
disaffected savages prowling around our 
quarters for days; particularly as the 
garrison was small and contained a 
number of ladies and children. 

When Red Cloud got within sight of 
the fort, he halted the ambulance in 
which he rode and arrayed himself in 
some of the finery that had been given 
him at Washington. A stove-pipe hat, 
a linen duster and a fan were what he 
prized the most, and thus adorned he 
rode into the fort and reported to the 
commandant, then proudly proceeded 
on to the camp in rather a striking toilet 
for the great chief of the Ogallallahs. 

The commissioners, Mr. Felix Brunot 
of Pittsburg, and Mr. Robert Camp- 
bell, of St. Louis, came in expectation 
of meeting Red Cloud in council at the 
fort, on their arrival. 

Day after day Red Cloud and chiefs 
were looked for, and day after day the 
commissioners were disappointed, which 
a* least taught them a lesson of patience. 
But as all things come to those who 
wait — a day came, and with it Red 
Cloud and a mighty host of warriors. 

A large platform under cover of can- 
vas had been erected for the chief par- 
ticipants of the council. There was no 
building at the fort large enough to 
hold 8000 Indians, besides the regular 
garrison and additional troops of the 
5th Cavalry, commissioners, inter- 



preters, citizens and families belonging 
to the fort. 

The pavilion erected for the council 
did not meet Red Cloud's approbation. 
He refused to enter it, and said to the 
commandant : "I am not a bug, to speak 
in the air !" 

The commandant then invited Red 
Cloud and chiefs to meet the commis- 
sioners and himself on the wide veranda 
of his quarters, with which Red Cloud 
was very much pleased, and the long 
delayed council met. 

The quarters referred to stood on the 
southwest corner of the fort. 

Officers and families were seated on 
the grass in front, crowded by Indians, 
citizens and soldiers, the latter unarmed, 
an evidence of faith in the Indians— for 
peace. 

The council was opened with prayer 
by Mr. Brunot, followed by Red Cloud 
in his native tongue, after which he de- 
livered an eloquent speech, followed 
with lengthy arguments by each chief 
through his own interpreter. 

Altogether it was a grand and im- 
pressive scene — one that will ever be re- 
membered by those who witnessed it. 
The council ended in a treaty of peace, 
and Red Cloud and his warriors went to 
their villages happy, laden with a most 
bountiful supply of useful gifts. 

The commissioners returned to their 
elegant homes and the military life re- 
sumed its ordinary garrison routine. 

By request of the writer, the forego- 



THE MIDWESTERN 



■Wv 




Porch Scene at the Fort 



ing brief sketch was given by one of was at the fort throughout all of this 
the late General Flint's daughters, who, critical and trying time, 
with the other members of the family, 



(Continued next month) 




Street Scene in Omaha 



THE MASQUERADE 



Barbara Hofland 



"You surely will not persist, Emma, 
to refuse accompanying Lady Forester 
and her party to the masquerade?" said 
Alicia Clinton to her young friend, with 
a look of supplication. 
"I certainly shall, my dear." 
"But she has sent you a ticket, my 
dear girl; and she has persuaded my 
grandmama there is no harm in it, and 
so decidedly renewed my wishes on the 
subject, that really, — 

"Do not finish your sentence by say- 
ing 'really you intend to go.' Remem- 
ber, dear Alicia, the peculiarity of your 
own situation. An affianced bride, long 
parted from the chosen of her heart, 
and newly arrived in this great mart of 
pleasure, is placed in a more delicate 
and perilous position than a wife ; for 
although her bonds are equally sacred, 
they are less obvious. Do not go." 

"You speak, Emma with as much 
seriousness as if I were going to do a 
positively wrong thing — to be guilty of 
some unfeminine impropriety of the 
most reprehensible nature. Surely I 
have a right to a little innocent amuse- 
ment, when I go in good company?" 

"Very true, Alicia ; but you also know 
that different definitions are given by 
different persons to words and things, 
and that no young woman who has given 
herself to another can act always upon 
her own convictions. No person for a 
moment will doubt that our fancy balls 
in the country, where assumed a char- 
acter, were as innocent as they were 
gay; but I apprehend a London crowd 
of people in masks, who are thereby 
privileged to address you, be they who 
they may, is a very different affair, and 
might subject a gentlewoman of correct 
manners to very embarrassing feelings." 
"Impossible! when she is with a party. 
I promise you not to leave Lady Forester 
for a moment; no, I'll hang upon her 
like a drowning creature, rather than 
subject myself to any attention that 
could possibly give future pain to your 
brother." 
"But will you be able to do that? 



You have often compared Charles, in 
days past, to Captain Wentworth in the 
admirable of Persuasion, and not only 
on account of his person and profession, 
but for that acute sensibility, and even 
fastidious perception, of the honorable, 
modest, virtuous, in female character; 
and whilst admiring him have said, 
'Would I were like Anne Musgrave, for 
his sake.' Now do you, can you think, 
that on the eve of her lover's return 
from a long and dangerous voyage, she 
could have given even her wishes to a 
masquerade ?" 

"No, Emma, she would not, I grant 
you; but we know that when the story 
commences she was five or six years 
older than I am; and these 'tamers of 
the human breast,' disappointment and 
comparative poverty, had impaired her 
spirits, diminished her beauty, and ren- 
dered her a pensive, gentle, stay-at-home 
sort of a person. Now, try as I may, 
I cannot become like her for I have had 
indulgent friends, a plentiful fortune, 
and an attached lover; I cannot become 
compliant and meek, and dejected, do 
what I will." 

"But you can be, and have been, con- 
stant, tender, and affectionate. You are 
capable of the heroism of self-denial, of 
sacrificing the love of admiration, and 
the stimilus of curiosity, to a deeper and 
more endeared motive of action." 

As Emma uttered the last words she 
withdrew, perceiving she had made an 
impression on her gay friend, who soon 
began thus to soliloquize : — 

"If I thought that dear Charles would 
come today, or tomorrow, it is true I 
should not think of going ; but seamen 
are so uncertain, and I may never have 
another opportunity ; for he is very par- 
ticular, and thinks so much of me, that 
I question if he would deem me safe, 
even in his own protection ; he is so ard- 
ent, so sincere, so unlike everybody one 
sees — " 

The tide of tender recollections now 
beginning to flow in the young beauty's 
bosom, would soon have restored her to 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



her wonted feelings, if the cunning temp- 
ter had not arrived at this moment and 
influenced her decision by reiterating her 
former entreaties, and adding the blan- 
dishments of well-acted interest in her 
lovely young friend — who was little 
aware that her company was sought not 
only to add brilliance to the dowager's 
evening parties, but for the purpose of 
ensnaring her person and fortune, as the 
prize of some one of her ladyship's fav- 
orites. 

So short a time intervened between 
the time when Alicia's promise was ex- 
tracted and that when she was to be 
called for, that she found herself at a 
loss how to procure a dress, such as she 
could approve of herself, or please her 
new and former friend by adopting. 

"I will not be a flower girl," said she, 
for everybody says the rooms will over- 
flow with them ; and Lady Forester 
would laugh at me as a nun, or a tragic 
muse, or a Quaker ; and I suppose were I 
Thalia, or Rosalind, or Perdita, or a 
sultana, or even Diana, Emma might see 
something in my dress that would be 
painful to her; and she is so good, and 
loves me so truly, I could not bear to 
wound her. I could better bear the 
sneer of Lady Forester when she talks 
of blue-stocking ladies, and sentimental 
country misses than grieve dear Emma." 

In this dilemma her grandmother sug- 
gested the idea of her wearing the dress 
of one of her ancestors, as she appeared 
at the court of George II., and which 
had been carefully preserved in the 
family since that time. It was accord- 
ingly tried on by an ancient waiting-wo- 
man, proud of understanding bygone 
fashions ; and was found to be not only 
splendid in effect, but exceedingly be- 
coming, and so perfectly adapted to her 
height and shape that Emma herself de- 
clared it unexceptionable. 

Thus attired, Alicia joined the motley 
party of Lady Forester, who appeared 
in the costume of Maria Theresa ; and 
she proceeded to the masquerade, assum- 
ing no particular character, and of course 
affecting no theatrical graces ; but by no 
means unconscious of the elegance of her 
figure, and the graces of her manners, 
and under the full persuasion that the 
novelty of the scene on which she was 
entering, and the abilities of those with 
whom she must mingle, would not fail 
to elicit her talents, and render her wit 
still more conspicious than her person. 



She concluded that all the former abodes 
of gaiety in which she found herself 
happy, and the cause of happiness of 
others, must be eclipsed for ever by this. 

But, alas ! those spirits that "live i' the 
sunbeam" of young hearts, and light 
young eyes with rapture, refused on this 
eventful evening to visit Alicia. When 
she had found herself one in the midst 
of a crowd, at once brilliant and low, the 
motley group, in their numbers and in- 
congruity, oppressed her spirits ; and she 
felt much more inclined to moralize on 
their characters, than laugh at their ab- 
surdities. This feeling increased when- 
ever a domino appeared, for to the wear- 
ers of this dress her active imagination 
appended the office of an inquisitor ; and 
she shrank from everyone that approach- 
ed, as if he had the power to read alike 
her thoughts and her situation, and re- 
port both to her disadvantage. 

She was compelled to resign her re- 
flections, and exert herself to recover 
those powers of mind, and, if possible, 
obtain that vivacity for which she was 
so generally admired ; but her efforts to 
this end were paralyzed by the fulsome 
attentions of a grand Turk who belonged 
to the party, and the teasing attentions 
of a beau of the last century, who con- 
sidered himself privileged to address her. 
As neither of them had either wit, or 
even the technicalities which belonged 
to the forms they assumed, effrontery 
and stupidity appearing to Alicia their 
only characteristics ; but she had not the 
oower of even satirizing these tormen- 
tors, for the Hungarian Queen, her 
chaperone, did not allow her the power 
of addressing her. Under the pretext 
of supporting her character, she threw 
her on the attentions of one or other so 
decidedly as to render her sense of im- 
propriety extremely painful. 

This increased to alarm, when she 
found the disciple of Lord Chesterfield 
vanished, and the officious Turk her sole 
attendant, at the very time when she had 
lost Lady Forester, and the humble com- 
panion who accompanied her. As she 
insisted on following them immediately, 
she was compelled to accept the stran- 
ger's arm and guidance, and hear with 
burning cheek and heaving bosom his 
self-gratulations on her soft compliance, 
no longer uttered in the feigned voice he 
had previously adopted. Tears of vex- 
ation and self-reproach rose to her eye, 
which she cast round in vain for her con- 



THE MASQUERADE 



37 



ductress to this now tiateful scene, when 
she was interrupt*! In her path by a 
mask, who appearg#to personate a dumb 
slave, and being arrayed in Turkish cos- 
tume, by his gestures invited her conduc- 
tor to follow him. 

Glad of any interruption, Alicia ex- 
pressed her willingness to do so ; but the 
representative of an imperial despot de- 
terminately resisted her entreaties in this 
respect, and dismissed' the slave, who 
lost not a minute in darting through the 
crowd, and with more courage than 
comphisance compelled Lady Forester to 
return with him. Alicia's short but 
pointed reproof effectually silenced the 
sarcasms the friend was prepared to 
pour on our mortified heroine ; in conse- 
quence of which, that amiable personage 
determined to mortify her, by remaining 
at the place till the latest moment being 
fullv aware of Alicia's desire to quit it. 

Whatever might be her wishes, or 
those of the Turk, her friend, it was 
evident that their designs were in a 
great measure neutralized by the intru- 
sions of the dumb slave, Who seemed 
determined never to leave them, and 
stood a battery of observations directly 
at him, if not to him, with a sang froid 
that really communicated the idea that 
he was deaf, as well as dumb. At length, 
however, he made a sudden start and 
ran off, to the evident pleasure of the 
party ; but Alicia had by this time so far 
recovered her self-possession, and was so 
certain from the extreme thinness of the 
rooms, that she must soon be relieved, 
that she determined to sustain with calm- 
ness the remainder of that wearisome 
time she was called upon to endure. 

At length their carriage drew up, and 
under the sickly daylight of a cold 
spring morning, Alicia drove home, ex- 
hausted and harassed, with feelings 
estranged from her companions, and pen- 
itent towards her beloved Emma. 

As she arrived at the door of her re- 
vered relative, a postchaise and four 
drove from it; the circumstance struck 
her as extraordinary; and she eagerly 
inquired of the servant in waiting, who 
Wa «i n th ? carria 8:e that had driven hence. 
Captain Alderson, ma'am ; he arrived 

a?j "'^ a * ter you were £ one - Miss 
Alderson is up and in the breakfast par- 
lour." 

Thither Alicia went in extreme agitn- 
tion. Joy that her husband had arrived, 
sorrow that she had been absent, and 



anger that he could have left the house 
without seeing her, were strangely min- 
gled in her bosom ; but fear of the con- 
sequences of that conduct which had 
already cost her so much vexation was 
her predominant sensation. Seizing the 
hand of Emma, she exclaimed — 

"Tell me in a moment what is the 
meaning of all this? Charles (poor 
Charles, from whom we have been so 
long parted) has been here and is gone." 

"Yes he arrived unfortunately before 
you left us half an hour. I was very 
sorry you lost the pleasure of receiving 
him, for he is looking so well, and is ev- 
ery way so entirely himself ; so kind, and 
frank, and noble-hearted." 

"But why did he go? How could he 
go without seeing me, knowing that I 
came to London to meet him?" 

"He had promised a sick boy, his mid- 
shipman, not to part from him till he 
had given him in charge to his widowed 
mother at Tunbridge. He sent an ex- 
press to this lady, and ordered a post- 
chaise to be there at six, before he came 
hither. It stood at the door half an 
hour, in the hope of your arrival, when, 
finding the patient became feverish from 
anxiety., he set out — a little vexed at 
your delay— but losing his own troubles 
in his cares for the invalid. You know 
how tender he is towards all who suf- 
fer." 

Alicia threw down her mask, hastily 
unclapsed her necklace and throwing 
herself into the arms of her friend, burst 
into a passion of tears. At length she 
exclaimed — 

"And from such a man as this, so gen- 
erous to others, so disinterested for him- 
self, so confiding in me, I could flee to 
mingle in a crowd of strangers, to hear 
nonsense I despised, and witness folly I 
could not — " 

"Were vou not amused then, after 
all ?" 

"No! not for a single half hour; be- 
yond the first five minutes (in which the 
novelty of the scene struck me) I found 
it insupportably dull. I tried to fancy 
I was in the carnival of Italy, of which 
one has read so much about ; but it would 
not do ; there was no exhilarating sun 
above me, and I was teased to death with 
two stupid coxcombs, who — " 

"Were driven away by a third." 

These words were not spoken by Em- 
ma. Alicia started, looked up, and with 
inexpressible emotion beheld Charles 



himself before her. The cause of Irs 
return was soon explained ; he had met 
the anxious mother whom he sought, 
placed her son in her care, and returned 
immediately. Alicia heard this account — 
and her head sunk on the bosom of Em- 
ma, anxious to hide the traces of her 
past tears, and blushes, which now 
lighted her pale cheeks. The lover com- 
plained of this reception, adding that she 
would "give better to a black slave." 

"Ha!" cried Alicia, "is my past folly 
already known to you?" 

The lover threw himself at her feet, 
in such an attitude as to show that he 
had himself been her attendant under 
that disguise. 

Alicia's countenance was half smiles, 
half tears, as she extended her arms to 
raise him. She felt assured that Charles 
had read the mortification of her heart, 
and approved her manners, though he 
might blame her for her appearance at 



the masquerade ; and in this sweet con- 
viction she almost forgave herself, 
though she ingenuously told the solici- 
tude of Emma to save her from committ- 
ing an action, which, in her present cir- 
cumstances, might be deemed one of 
folly and unkindness. 

"My sister's kindness was worthy of 
herself, and beneficial to me," returned 
the lover; "for finding her ticket on the 
mantel-piece, I was induced to avail my- 
self of it, unknown to any one but my 
own servant, and by taking the only 
dress I could procure, to effect relief 
to you from evident annoyance. I can- 
not regret an incident which enabled me 
to read a new page in the heart of her to 
whom I have been so long and profound- 
ly attached ; but never again may I have 
the pain of fearing to find its innocent 
gaiety misconstrued, or its purity sullied, 
by the unfeminine absurdities of a pub- 
lic masquerade." 




GRANDMA'S TEAM 



Louisa May Alcott 



"It's no use, I can't find a horse any- 
where, for love or money. All are either 
sick or kept quiet today for fear of 
being sick. I declare I'd almost rather 
lose Major than disappoint mother," said 
Farmer Jenks, coming in on Sunday 
morning from a fruitless visit to his 
neighbors. 

It was in the height of the horse dis- 
temper, and his own valuable beast stood 
in the stall, looking very interesting, 
with his legs in red flannel bandages, an 
old shawl around his neck, his body well 
covered with blankets, and, a pensive ex- 
pression in his eyes as he coughed and 
groaned distressfully. 

You see it was particularly unfortunate 
to have Major give out on Sunday, for 
grandma had been to church, rain or 
shine, every Sunday for twenty years, 
and it was the pride of her life to be 
able to say this. She was quite super- 
stitious about it, and really felt as if her 
wonderful health an strength were given 
her as a reward for her unfailing devo- 
tion. 

A sincerely pious and good old lady 
was Grandma Jenks, and her entry into 
the church always made a little sensation, 
for she was eighty-five years old, yet hale 
and hearty, with no affliction but lame 
feet. So every Sunday, all the year 
around, her son or grandsons drove her 
down to service in the wide, low chaise, 
got expressly for her benefit, and all the 
week seemed brighter and better for the 
quiet hour spent in the big pew. 

; "If. the steeple should fall, folks would- 
n't miss it any more than they would old 
Mrs. Jenks from her corner," was a say- 
ing among the people, and grandma felt 
as if she was not only a public character, 
but a public example for all to follow, for 
another saying was : 

"Well, if old Mrs. Jenks can go to 
meeting, there's no excuse for our stay- 
ing at home." 

That pleased her, and so when the 
farmer came in with his bad news, she 
looked deeply disappointed, sat still a 
minute tapping her hymn-book , then 



took her two canes and got up, saying 
resolutely : 

"A merciful man is merciful to his 
beast, so I won't have poor Major risk 
his life for me, but I shall walk." 

A general outcry followed, for grand- 
ma was very lame, church a mile away, 
and the roads muddy after the rain. 

"You can't do it, mother, and you'll be 
sick for the winter if you try," cried 
Mrs. Jenks in great trouble. 

"No, dear; I guess the Lord will give 
me strength, since I am going to His 
House," answered the old lady, walking 
slowly to the door. 

"Blest if I wouldn't carry you myself 
if I could mother," exclaimed the farmer, 
helping her down the steps with filial 
gentleness. 

Here Ned and Charley, the boys, 
laughed, for grandma was very stout, 
and the idea of their father carrying her 
tickled them immensely. 

"Boys, I'm ashamed of you !" said 
their mother, frowning at them. But 
grandma laughed, too, and said pleas- 
antly : 

"I won't be a burden, Moses ; give me 
your arm and I'll step out as well as I 
can, and mebby someone may come 
along and give me a lift." 

So the door was locked and the family 
set off. But it was hard work for the 
old lady, and soon she said she must sit 
down and rest a spell. As they stood 
waiting for her, all looking anxious, the 
boys suddenly had a bright idea, and, 
merely sayine they had forgotten some- 
thing, raced up the hill again. 

"I'm afraid you won't be able to do 
it, mother," the farmer was just saying, 
when the sound of an approaching car- 
riage made them all turn to look, hoping 
for a lift. 

Nearer and nearer drew the rattle, and 
round the corner came, not a horse's 
head, but two felt hats on two boys' 
heads, and Charley and Ned appeared, 
trotting briskly with the chaise behind 
them. 

"Here's your team, grandma ! Jump 



40 



THE MIDWESTERN 



in, and we'll get you to meeting in good 
time yet," cried the lads, smiling and 
panting as they drew up close to the 
stone where the old lady sat. 

"Boys, boys, it's Sunday, and we can't 
have any jokes or nonsense now," began 
Mrs. Jenks, looking much scandalized. 

"Well, I don't know, wife. It's a new 
thing, I allow, but considering the fix we 
are in, I'm not sure it's not a good plan. 
What do you think, mother?" asked the 
farmer, laughing, yet well-pleased at the 
energy and good will of the lads. 

"If the boys behave themselves, and 
do it as a duty, and not as a frolic, and. 
don't upset me, I reckon I'll let them 
try, for I don't believe I can get there 
any other way," said grandma. 

"You hoped the Lord would give you 
strength, and so He has, in this form. 
Use it, mother, and thank Him for it, 
since the children love you so well they 
would run their legs off to serve you," 
said the farmer, soberly, as he helped the 
old lady in and folded the robes around 
her feet. 

"Steady, boys, no pranks, and stop be- 
hind the sheds. I can lend mother an 
arm there, and she can walk across the 
green. This turnout is all very well, but 
we won't make a show of it." 

Away went the chaise rolling gently 
down the hill, and the new span trotted 
well together, while the old lady sat calm- 
ly inside, frequently saying: 

"Don't pull too hard, Ned. I'm afraid 
I'm too heavy for- you to draw, Charley. 
Take it easv dears ; there's time enough, 
time enough." 

"You'll never hear the last of 'his, 
Moses ; it will be the town joke for 
months to come," said Mrs. Jenks, as she 
and her husband walked briskly after the 
triumphal car. 

"Don't care if I do hear on't for a 
considerable spell. It's nothing to be 
ashamed of, and I guess you'll find that 
folks will agree with me, even if they do 
laugh," answered the farmer stoutly; and 
he was right. 

Pausing behind the sheds, grandma 
was handed out, and the family went into 
church, a little late, but quite decorously, 
and as if nothing funny had occurred. 
To be sure, Ned and Charley were very 
red and hot, and now and then stole looks 
at each other with a roguish twinkle of 
the eye ; but a nudge from mother or a 
shake of the head from father kept them 
in "food order, while dear grandma could- 



n't do enough to show her gratitude. 
She passed a fan, she handed pepper- 
mints in her hymn-book, an'd when Ned 
sneezed begged him to put her shawl 
around his shoulders. 

After church the lads slipped away and 
harnessed themselves already for the 
homeward trip. But they had to wait, 
for grandma met some friends and stop- 
ped to "reminiss" as she called it, and her 
son did not hurry her, thinking it as well 
to have the coast clear before his new 
team appeared. 

It was dull and cold behind the sheds, 
and the boys got impatient. Their har- 
ness was rather intricate, and they did 
not want to take it off, so they stood 
chafing and grumbling at the delay. 

"You are nearest, so just hand out that 
blanket and put it over me ; I'm cold as 
a stone," said Ned, who was leader. 

"I want it myself, if I've got to wait 
here much longer," grumbled Charley, 
sitting on the whiffletree, with his legs 
curled up. 

"Yo're a selfish pig ! I'm sure I shall 
have the horse-cough tomorrow if you 
don't cover me up." 

"Now you know why father is so par- 
ticular about making us cover Major 
when we leave him standing. You never 
do it if you can help it, so how do you 
like it yourself?" 

"Whether we like it or not, I'll warm 
you when we get home, see if I don't, old 
fellow." 

Up came the elders and away went the 
ponies, but they had a hard tug of it this 
time. Grandma was not a light weight, 
the road pretty steep in places, and the 
mud made heavy going. Such a puffing 
and panting, heaving and hauling, was 
never seen or heard there before. The 
farmer put his shoulder to the wheel, and 
even Mrs. Jenks tucked up her black silk 
skirts, and gave an occasional tug at one 
shaft. 

Grandma bemoaned her cruelty, and 
begged to get out, but the lads wouldn't 
give up, so with frequent stoppages, some 
irrepressible laughter, and much persis- 
tent effort, the old lady was safely landed 
at the front door. 

No sooner was she fairly down than 
she did what I fancy might have a good 
effect on four-legged steeds, if occasion- 
ally tried. She hugged both boys, patted 
and praised them, helped pull off their 
harness, and wiped their hot foreheads 
with her own best Sunday handkerchief, 



GRANDMA'S TEAM 



then led them in and fed them well. 

The lads were in high feather at the 
success of their exploit, and each showed 
it in a different way. Charley laughed 
and talked about it, offered to trot grand- 
ma out any day, and rejoiced in the 
strength of his muscles, and his sound- 
ness of wind and limb. 

But Ned sat silently eating his dinner, 
and when someone asked him if he re- 
membered the text of the sermon, he 
answered in grandma's own words, "A 
merciful man is merciful to his beast." 

"Well, I don't care, that's the only 
text I remember, and I got a sermon out 
of it, anyway," he said, when the rest 
laughed at him, and asked what he wan 
thinking about. 

''I seem to know how Major feels 
when we keep him waiting, when I don't 
blanket him, and when I expect him to 
pull his heart out with no time to get 
his breath. I'm going to beg his pardon 
after dinner and tell him about it." 

Charley stopped laughing when sober 
Ned said that, and he saw his father and 
mother nod to one another as if well 
pleased. 

"I'll go, too, and tell the old fellow 
that I mean to uncheck him going up 
hill, to scotch the wheels so that he can 
rest, and be ever so good to him if he'll 
only get well." 

"You might add that you mean to 
treat him like a horse and a brother, for 
you've turned pony yourself," said his 
father, when Charley finished his virtu- 
ous remarks. 

"And don't forget to pet him a good 



deal, my dears, for horses like to be 
loved and praised, and thanked as well as 
boys, and we can't do too much for the 
noble creatures who are so faithful and 
useful to us," said Mrs. Jenks, quite 
touched by the new state of feeling. 

"It's my opinion that this sickness 
among the horses will do a great deal of 
good, by showing folks the great value of 
the beasts they abuse and neglect. Neigh- 
bor Stone is fussing over his old Whit- 
ey as if he was a child, and yet I've 
seen that poor brute unmercifully beaten, 
and kept half-starved. I told Stone that 
if he lost him it would be because kind 
treatment came too late ; and Stone never 
gnt mad, but went and poured vinegar 
over a hot brick under Whitey's nose 
till he 'most sneezed his head off. Stone 
has got a lesson this time, and so have 
some other folks." 

As the farmer spoke, he glanced at the 
boys, remorsefully recalled the wrongs 
poor Major had suffered at their hands, 
not from cruelty, but thoughtlessness, 
and both resolved to treat him like a 
friend for evermore. 

"Well," said grandma, looking with 
tender pride at the ruddy faces on either 
side of her, "I'm thankful to say that I've 
never missed a Sunday for twenty year, 
and I've been in all sorts of ways, even 
on an ox sled one time when the drifts 
were deep, but I never went better than 
to-day ; so in this dish of tea I'm going 
to drink this toast : 

"Easy roads, light loads, and kind 
drivers to irrandma's team !" 







Evening in the Pasture 




I wonder if you know that there is a 
splendid branch of Sunshiners in Dei 
Moines. They are affiliated with the In 
ternational Society in New York City. 
The Des Moines branch organized four 
years ago with about twelve active mem- 
bers. The presidents for the four years 
have been Misses Florence Hunn, Lucy 
Abbett, Hazel Hutson and Hazel Collins. 
The membership has increased to thirty 
at the present time under the efficient 
leadership of Mrs. Durham. The united 
and untiring efforts have brought about 
results of which they may be proud. Per- 
haps you have heard of them when thev 
were boosting an operetta or musical and 
afterwards of the pleasing success of the 
entertainments. But did you wonder 
what they did with the money? 

Here are a few of the many places it 
has been sent : Two hundred dollars was 
endowed to the Iowa Methodist Hospital 
for a children's free ward, new curtains 
have been purchased twice by the society 



since, flowers and playthings have be 
taken as often as possible. Then there 
are many families, poor, and also bur- 
dened with invalids and sickness, often 
resulting in death. These desolate homes 
are looked after, magazines taken to the 
"shut-ins," comfort and good cheer to all 
from the hearts who know that true 
friendliness is better a hundred times 
than wealth. 

Often material assistance is necessary 
and is willingly given. All who the Sun- 
shine girls help are truly worthy. Inquiry 
is often made from the Associated Chari- 
ties, the overseer of the poor and kindred 
organizations. If any difficulty arises it 
is thoroughly investigated. 

Five dollars is sent each year to Maude 
Ballington Booth for her prison work. 
A wheel chair was purchased for a crip- 
ple mother with seven little ones. Shoes 
and stockings have been purchased also 
for many of the children. 

One of the 



ised also 
; Band 




HOYT SHERMAN PLACE 
Home of the Des Moines Women's Club and meeting place of several of the other larger clubs of 

: first meetings of the year occurred during this month. 







MISS HARRIET LAKE 

Of Independence. State Regent of the D. A. R. 
The annual state meeting occurred in Fort Dodge. October 13th and Mth 




MRS. W. F. MITCHELL 

The out-going President of the Des Moines Women's Club. Under Mrs. Mitche 

rule of two years the Club's present home was secured. Mrs. Mitchell is 

loved and honored in Des Moines, where she was born and 

reared. She presided over the great Taft meeting 

for women last month and is a member 

the City Library Board 





MRS. G. D. ELLYSON 

The out-going Treasurer of the Des Moines Women's Club. Mrs. Ellyson is loved 
and admired by all who know her and in her work with Mrs. Mitchell, Pres- 
ident, and Mrs. C. E. Hunn, Secretary, of the Women's Club, such a 
unanimity of feeling and helpfulness prevailed that the work 
of the club was especially effective. A large reception 
at Sherman Place, given by these officers, was 
a farewell and an introduction for 
the new officers. 





MRS. C. E. HUNN 

One of the leading club women of the city and the efficient 

Secretary of the Des Moines Women's Club for two years 





HUP 



MRS. COX 
One of the real Daughters of the American Revolution 
and a member of Abigail Adams Chapter 




A real 



MRS. L. F. ANDREWS 



real Daughter of the American Revolution and member of Abigail Adams 
Chapter. Mrs. Andrews is an enthusiastic club woman 




MRS. BINA M. WYMAN, now of Los Angeles 
Member of the Women's Press Club 



MRS.6HURD of Cedar Falls 
Member of.'the Women's Press Club 




MRS. A. E. SHIPLEY 

New President of the Des Moines Women s Club 



DESERTED NESTS 

I'd rather see an empty bough, 

A dreary, weary bough, lhat hung 
As boughs will hang within whose arms 

No mater birds had ever sung ; 
Far rather than to see or touch 

The sadness of an empty nest, 
Where joy has been, but is not now ; 

Where love has been, but is not blest. 
There is no sadness in the world, 

No other like it here or there — 
The sadness of deserted homes 

In nests, or hearts, or anywhere. 

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 




MRS. D. H. REICHARD 
Member of Women's Press Club 



SONG IN ABSENCE 



Sweetheart, how fares the night, 
While I am afar — and alone ! 
To viol and flute do you glide through 
the light 
Like a Nymph from the wildwood 
blown ? 
Do the Gallants struggle as you trip by 
To catch one glance from your laughing 

eye, 
Bright as the dew when the Wind's 
asigh, 
From skies of April blue? 
Anear, or apart, 

The round year through, 
Flower-o'-my-heart, 
I dream of you. 



Sweetheart, the hours are long, 

But nothing my faith can mar; 
Not even Fancy can work you wrong- 
God bless you wherever you are! 
Pure as the bloom by the Springtide rill, 
The trembling flower that knows no ill. 
'Tis you I love — and have no will — 
As the wave to the star, I'm true. 
Anear, or apart, 

'Neath Rose or Rue, 
Flower-o'-my-heart, 
I dream of vou. 






— Samuel Minturn Peck in HarpeVs 
Bazar. 




MISS EMILY B. STAPP 
Member of the Women's Press Club 



DREAMS 

Winifred Walden 



To-day she lays away her dreams, as Upon the rack. Life mocks her, 

they offering, 

Who fold the dresses of some loved dead For her heart hunger, empty husks of 

child — joys 

The misty garments of a happiness She longed for. 
Awaited thru long year, which only 

smiled, Yet she dares not quite despair 

And passed, and broke her heart. O ye Rememb'ring Him to whom life's bit- 

who weep terness 

For loved ones gone, ve are not utterly Was daily drink ; who bore his cross 

Bereft ; they once were in thy arms, their alone. 

breath Perchance thru fellowship of his suff'ring 

Was warm upon thy lips. Thou mayest Her soul may touch those other souls, 

grieve, across 

And friends may mingle tears with Whose path of heart's-desire stands God's 

thine ; but she — shut door. 

Tho all the years and chambers of her And this black-robed sorrow walking by 

heart her side 

Be desolate — must smile and hide her Stand forth at last a radiant angel 

hurt. In the clear light of God's great after- 

Which quivers at a touch, as tender flesh while. 















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MRS. D. W. BUSHNELL 
Of Council Bluffs, Vice-President General for the D. A. R. of Iowa 



ROSEMARY 



Oh, dear dear friend ! When of the book 
ofrnem'ry 
I turn the pages slowly, one by one, 
'Mong all the faces treasured there so 
fondly, 
There's none more brightly imaged 
than thine own. 
Again 1 sue thy smile so true and tender, 
The pure, sweet radiance of thine earn- 
est eyes ; 



Again I feel the clasp of fingers slender, 
And hear the music of thy low replies: 
Once more along the mountain path we 
linger, 
Once more the rugged, craggy steep 
we brave — 
As on this page Remembrance lays her 
finger, 
1 lay this leaf of Rosemary on thy 
grave. 

— Carrie E. Frederick. 



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MRS. A. B. BILLINGTON 




Cultivated literary woman and writer and me 


mber of the 


Des Moines Women's Press Club 






MRS. M A. SMITH 
of Ames, Member of the Women's Press Club 




MISS ELLA McLONEY 
Librarian of the Des Moines City Library 



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MISS MAUDE L. FORNEY 



Of the Midwestern Miss Forney has made a great success 

in the business department of the former Mail and Times, 

Chicago Review and with the Clover Leaf 

Syndicate of the Daily News. 




MRS. GEORGE W. OGILVIE 

Of the Midwestern, former owner of the Mail and Times, editorial con 
tributor to many papers, alsj story and magazine writer. 




MRS. JOHN BRIAR 



An Appreciation 



As the fairest blossoms in Flora's 
train are the earliest to be recalled from 
their mission of beauty and cheer, so the 
loveliest ones of earth are often sum- 
moned hence ere the chilling effects of 
time and care have stamped a corroding 
impression on their sensitive natures. 

Mrs. John Briar was possessed of a 
sweet and sunny disposition and even a 
casual acquaintance warranted the ver- 
dict— "She was so kind !" To the many 
who knew her but to love her, and ex- 
perienced through intimate associations 
the rare quality of giving happiness to 
others which was her fortunate endow- 
ment, there is a personal significance in 
the words: "When a good woman dies 
all the world loses a friend." 

Like sunset hues that linger with an 
after-glow in Memory's hall, like the 
cadence of a remembered song that sends 
an echoing thrill along the sense, like the 
pervasive odor of the rose that seems to 
greet us in the place where late its frag- 
rance filled the air, even so — in the walks 
of life that knew her presence — there will 
arise a shadowed semblance to remind us 
of her active worth and the loving ser- 
vice it was her delight to render. In 
her home life as wife, daughter, and sis- 
ter, her excellence of character shone 
forth on every occasion. Her ambition 
for self-improvement was centered on the 



wish to be of more value to others both 
in the circle of home and in society. As 
an abettor of her husband's official posi- 
tion she was admirably fitted to promote 
the interests of state and legislative func- 
tions and to win and hold state-wide 
friendships. 

As a member of the Des Moines Wo- 
men's club, since 1899, Mrs. Briar rose 
to constantly increasing positions of in- 
flence and was the efficient chairman of 
the social committee for 1907-8, a period 
of great importance in the history of the 
club, marking its entrance into Hoyt 
Sherman Place. She was enrolled for 
study in the Art department of the club. 
Her memory was fittingly commemorated 
by resolutions of respect presented before 
the City Federation of Women's clubs 
at the September meeting. 
Somewhere — dear hands shall clasp our 

own once more, 
And hearts that touched our hearts long 

years before 
Shall come to meet us in the morning 

land; 
And there, at last, our souls shall under- 
stand 
How, though he hid his meaning from 

our sight, 
Yet God was always true and always 
right. 

— Ad die B. Billing ton. . 



IN MEMORY 



Nothing is so sad as the broken home, 
and no loss is so serious to the home as 
the loss of the woman who is its soul 
and center. And to be called by the 
dread messenger to say goodbye, when 
life is at flood tide, when happiness and 
peace is supreme, this is one of the things 
we cannot understand or be reconciled 
to. Mrs. Briar was most dearly loved 
in her circle of friends and in her family. 
Her nature was sympathetic, responsive 
and appreciative. She gave generously 
from her big, warm heart to all who 
needed her love and her care. In her 
last cruel illness, amidst suffering, she 
was the same brave and gentle spirit, 
thinking of others before herself and 
cheering those about her. 



In all of her associations she was cap- 
able and efficient and made warm friends. 
Her place in club, church and society cir- 
cles will be hard to fill. And in the 
lovely home, where she was a queen — at 
the fireside where happiness ruled, 
where friends were wont to gather — here 
is the loneliest place of all — now that 
she is gone. There was something child- 
ish and sweet about her — and lying 
so white and still before the bank of red 
roses, in her pink dress which she had 
loved, her beautiful hair making a halo 
for the pale face, she seemed like a little 
girl — entered alone upon the unknown 
voyage. Dear, gentle heart, goodbye ! 

— Carolyn M. Ogilvie. 




JUDGE P. M. CASADY 



IN MEMORY 



It seems but yesterday that we saw 
him sitting in his window of the old 
bank at the corner of Fifth and Wal- 
nut — serene, beautiful old face in its 
frame of snowy hair — glad hand out- 
Stretched to all friends who came and 
went in the day's business. And but a 
short time back he was one with all the 
activities of life, in the home, in the 
church, in his business and social duties, 
always the kindly, beautiful, steadfast 
spirit, the true wise friend of all who 
needed his friendship. And then with 
a life behind him filled with a record of 
honorable work, he began taking a rest, 
visiting his friends, chatting with much 
joy and laughter with those who were 
congenial. \.ndoneol his pleasures was 
to sit by his desk in the bank for several 
hours each day, looking about him, and 
greeting his friends. 



And then one day his face was absent 
from the window. It came with a dis- 
tinct shock to the many who were wont 
to look up for his smile as they passed by. 
This was the beginning of the end. His 
friends sought him in his home and 
found him filled with the same joy of 
living, the same beautiful, cheerful spirit, 
the same kindly interest of the great 
heart to all of his friends. Just a few 
days before the end came he wrote the 
letter of congratulation to The Midwest- 
ern which we published in our September 
number. Anil the morning in which the 
magazine appeared, he left us. Rut such 
a life, so full of inspiration, of courage 
and of love for humanity, never dies. 
And we know that some day we shall 
meet him face to face again ami know 
him and he will know us. Blessed be 
his memory. 

C. M. 0. 



i. 



IN MEMORY OF MRS. SAB1N 



News of the passing of Mrs. Henry 
Sabin on the night of Thursday, Oc- 
tober first, came as a deep personal 
sorrow to a large circle of friends 
throughout the city and state, many of 
whom had not known of her illness, so 
brief was its duration. 

Throughout a residence of more than 
twenty years in Des Moines, Mrs.' Sabin 
was actively identified with its literary, 
ri'ligious and philanthropic interests. 
She was the originator of the_ T. V. 
Reading Circle, one of the oldest and 
best known of all the literary organiza- 
tions. In St. Paul's Episcopal church 
she was a regular attendant, and a faith- 
ful worker in the Helping Hand society. 
Among the charitable institutions in 
former years Cottage Hospital ranked 
foremost, and as a member of the board 
her wise counsel and cheery helpfulness 
is a pleasant memory. But more than 
all else, measured by the truest standard 



ot living, the home, Mrs. Sabin's life 
was a success. Home to her was sanc- 
tuary, an abode of peace and love, and 
happy were the friends who were close 
enough to her to partake of its hospi- 
tality. A quiet, earnest, forceful nature, 
a well-trained, cultured mind, a dispo- 
sition sunny and lovable, and ever opti- 
mistic — who can measure the influence 
such a woman exerts in the success of 
those nearest and dearest to her, the 
husband whose long career has been 
one of continued honors in the educa- 
tional field, the two sons who reverence 
alJ womanhood through their mother, 
truly the void made by her taking 
away can never be bridged in the hearts 
ot those who loved her, but throughout 
all the rears to come there will linger 
memories of a beautiful life, a precious 
heritage. 

— Anna Ross Clarke. 



IMPROVED DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION IN 
THE MIDDLE WEST 



In 1896 and -1900 Mr. Bryan had no 
effective party organization back of him 
in the great States where he must win to 
be elected. In the Central Western 
States the Democrats were never so well 
organized as now, the Cleveland cam- 
paign of 1892 not excepted. In Illinois 
Mr. Adlai Stevenson is the Deni<>craMc 
candidate for Governor. In Ohio Mr. 
Judson Harmon is the guiding spirit 
of the party. Mr. Johnson is again the 
candidate for Governor in Minnesota. 
The Democrats are everywhere putting 
forward their men of character and abil- 
ity. The Republicans, on the other 
hand, are tormented by factions and 
feuds in nearly all these great States of 
the Central West. This year Missouri 
is as solidly Democratic as South Caro- 
lina. In 1904 Roosevelt carried Missouri 
because 24,000 Democrats remained 
away from the polls. Thev will not stay 
at home this year. 



But more important than organization, 
than Republican apathy, and the issues 
of the campaign is the markedly chang- 
ed attitude of the people toward the 
Democratic candidate. There are still 
many persons who do not yet know and 
understand Mr. Bryan, but if the great' 
number of people who have come to 
appreciate his character and ideals since 
he was last a candidate, vote for him, 
there can be no doubt of his election. As 
a pointer indicating the inroads he has 
made on the Republican party in the 
West, out of one Democratic club in 
Iowa of 192 members, forty-nine are old- 
line Republicans, never having voted the 
Democratic ticket. Democratic clubs in 
Indiana, West Virginia, Illinois, Minne- 
sota, and Nebraska show a Republican 
membership of from 10 to 20 per cent. — 
From "Mr. Bryan's Third Campaign," 
by Tosephus Dankds, in the American 
Review' of Reviews for October. 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



IN the October number of this maga- 
zine something was said of the 
value of a public service franchise. 
Much more can be said respecting 
it, and from a point of view seldom, 
if ever, taken by the average citizen — 
the value of such a franchise to the city. 

It can be conclusively demonstrated 
that such a franchise, properly exer- 
cised, is more valuable to the people 
who grant it than the corporation to 
whom it is granted. Take the Des 
Moines City Railway, for instance 
Study its progress from the old horse- 
car days, with its trackage confined tc 
a couple of downtown streets, to its 
present ninety-six miles, distributed 
over the city in every direction. Then 
compare the price and valuation of 
property year by year along the lines of 
road as they were extended, and esti- 
mate the increased value to the whole 
area of the city. 

The price paid, or taxes, for its fran- 
chise by the railway company conies 
from the patrons, of course, but it goes 
ultimately into the city treasury and is 
distributed in many ways, by municipal 
action, among all the people. The com- 
pany can receive no higher rate in re- 
turn for its service or investment, what- 
ever be the franchise cost. 

A writer in Public Service, a publica- 
tion devoted to public service corpora- 
tions, says : 

"The franchise held by a public serv- 
ice company signifies the right to use 
the streets and alleys which belong to 
the people. The privilege in the larger 
sense is no privilege at all. It is mere- 
ly an economic convenience for the 
greatest good to the greatest number. 
The community is on the verge of an- 
ticipated growth and prosperity. It 
needs the utilities. It wants them for 
selfish reasons — to help itself. 

The common view is that a franchise 
has been given for a mere pittance, and 
therefore the people are being robbed. 
The analytical and more correct view is 
that the franchise has been more than 



paid for by the assistance which the util- 
ity has rendered in building up the com- 
munity. 

"It is true the actual service rendered 
by the utility company has been paid for 
as received, but the aid the company 
has rendered in creating the city, and 
the valuable things it represents, has not 
been paid for in that way. The total 
value received by the community is a 
great deal in excess of the franchise plus 
the cost for service. That can be shown 
iu a simple way. The basis of property 
value is land — real estate. The unpaid 
for service of a utility company is rep- 
resented in money by the difference in 
the rental of a dwelling or store which 
is, or may be, served, and where the 
service is not obtainable. Thus by 
granting a corporation permission to do 
business the freeholder has added to 
his possession." 

The people — the vast mass who own 
no real estate — get the convenience, and 
that is what the tenant or renter pays 
for the difference in the rent. 

The theory of this writer is based on 
the assumption that the utilities are 
well and conservatively managed. It 
therefore fittingly applies to Des Moines 
where such service has always been pro- 
gressive, often in advance of public 
needs. Hence, there is an increasing 
public sentiment that the town cannot 
get on without the utilities, nor the 
utilities without the town — they are 
mutually dependant. 

DES MOINES WATER WORKS 
COMPANY. 

A recent discovery of five cases of 
typhoid fever among the soldiers at 
Fort Des Moines, created considerable 
excitement in the public mind, which 
was intensified by the report in the city 
papers that the city water was bad, and 
was the probable cause of the sickness. 
Mr. L. F. Andrews, who for nearly 
twenty years was connected with the 
State Board of Health, at once began 
ar: investigation. Prof. Floyd Davis col- 



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lected water from several places, and 
the following is his analysis of the same : 



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SAMPLE NO. 1 

Houghton's Pharmacy, 1901 
Cottage Grove Ave. 



SAMPLE NO. 2 

H. C. Evans. 1145 Thirty- 
sixth Street 



SAMPLE NO. 3 

Golf and Country Club, 
West Part of City 



SAMPLE NO. 4 

The Waterworks Pumping 

Station 



SAMPLE NO. a 

Watering Trough, corner 
Main and Hartford Aye. 



SAMPLE NO. 

Haltenberg'g Corner, Hub- 
hell and East 18th Street 



SAMPLE NO. 7 

Highland Park Fire 
Station 



*Some «hange in color. With very slight odor. 
The figures meaning in parts per 1.000,000. 
Samples taken September 12. 1908. 

(Signed) PROF. FLOYD DAVIS. 

The analysis shows the water is of 
the usual standard of purity during the 
past five years. Special effort was made 
by the Professor bacteriologically and 
microscopically to ascertain if there was 
present the germs of typhoid. Owing to 
the wellnigh impossibility to identify or 
find that germ in water, chemists have 
chosen the colon bacillus as a very sure 
indicator of its presence. Not a single 
colon bacillus was found in the samples 
collected. Neither has a monthly anal- 
ysis of the water for five years disclosed 
one. 

Further investigation was made by 
Mr. Andrews, with Professor Davis, at 
the Army Post, but nothing was ac- 
quired indicating that the cause of the 
sxkness was therein, but it was learned 
that the sick soldiers had habitually 
come into the city, ate and drank at 
lunch wagons and lunch carts, the 
service of which is not very enticing. 
Also, that they belong to different 
troops and occupied different quarters ; 
that only city water was used by occu- 
pants of the fort, and that there had 
been no other cases of intestinal trouble 



among the residents there during the 
summer. 

Typhoid is a filth — a hand-to-mouth- 
disease. It is caused by a specific germ 
which must pass through the mouth into 
the intestines. It is infectious, but not 
contagious, and not transmitted from one 
person to another through the atmos- 
phere, or by contact, as is smallpox, scar- 
let fever and diphtheria. The ways and 
means by which the typhoid germ may 
find its way into the mouth from food 
and drink are manifold. The common 
house fly can carry on its feet from the 
putrid carcass of a dead rat in the alley, 
to the food in a lunch wagon, on a lunch 
cart, or in a restaurant kitchen, enough 
germs to cause a serious epidemic. Un- 
clean milk is also a common habitat of 
the germ. City physicians have traced 
a large amount of sickness among chil- 
dren to the ice cream peddled about the 
town in carts, during the past summer. 

Thus far there are no indications that 
the city water is contaminated or danger- 
ous to health. Because of the agitation 
of the subject, the city council will cause 
further examination made, so that the 
public mind may be satisfied, for the 
water supply is the most valuable of the 
public utilities. If the water is danger- 
ous, the water company are equally de- 
sirous to know the fact, and to that end 
will give its active assistance. 

DES MOINES GAS COMPANY 

One of the perplexities of housekeep- 
ing is the extravagant waste of coal for 
heating purposes, especially when but a 
small service is wanted. If one desires 
to take a bath the coal range must be 
started. Coal must be brought in, the 
kindling prepared, the dampers opened, 
the ashes shaken out, the firebox filled 
with coal, and a match applied. Before 
sufficient heat is produced to raise the 
temperature of the water in the boiler to 
the proper degree, one or two scuttles 
of coal are used, costing six to eight 
cents. Forty gallons of water is ample 
for bathing purposes in a family. Tf you 
have a gas stove it is only necessary to 
attach to it a Vulcan Water Heater and 
get heat without waste, labor, dust or 
dirt. A cubic foot of illuminating gas 
contains 660 heat units. Fach heat unit 
will raise the temperature of one pound 
(about one pint), of water one degree 
Fahrenheit. Suppose your boiler holds 
forty gallons (320 pints), and the tem- 
perature of the water in the boiler is 



64 



THE MIDWESTERN 



fifty degrees. To raise it to no degrees, 
which is twenty degrees above blood heat, 
would require seventy heat units for each 
pint of water. As there are 320 pints, it 
would require 28,800 heat units, which, 
divided by 660, the number of units in 
a cubic foot of gas, would give 43^ feet 
of gas required. At $1.00 per thousand 
cubic feet, the cost would be about 4J/2 
cents. The water heated, turn the stop- 
cock and the waste of fuel ceases. The 
same amount of water heated in a coal 
range would require at least two scuttles 
of coal costing not less than six cents, 
beside the labor and dirt, and the waste 
of fuel goes on until the coal is con- 
sumed. 

Toasted bread is a favorite form of 
food for a large number of people — it 
is their breakfast food. The latest and 
most perfect appliance for toasting it 
is the Vulcan Toaster, with which four 
slices can be toasted at once, from top 
to bottom without burning the center, 
or changing the position of the bread. 
By an ingenious device the toasting is 
done by radiant heat and not by direct 
heat, which improves the finished toast. 
Just set it over a burner on the gas 
stove, light a match, and in four minutes 
take your toast. 

Another saving of coal waste is avail- 
able during the cool evenings and morn- 
ings since the passing of the summer 
days in the use of the Vulcan Forked 
Stick Gas Log. The fire from it re- 
sembles that produced from a hickory or 
maple log, and the heat is sufficient to 
make comfortable any room in a house. 
It is nT'de in four sizes, according to the 
heat required. 

The Vulcan appliances are the very 
latest improvements in gas heating de- 
vices, and the Des Moines Gas Company 
will promptlv respond to any request to 
install them for trial. 

EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 

Long nights are coming, and more 
light will be needed. A pertinent ques- 
tion is, "Wlwt sh^ll it be?" Inventive 
genius has made rapid strides in li^ht 
producing Men and women are now 
living who read, wrote, and worked 
bv the light of greased rags laid in a 
dish of grease, or "tallow dips," and 
merchants who illuminatd their stores 
with the light of while oil lamps. Gen- 
ius has turned night into day ; harnessed 
electricity to the car of Progress, and 
well nigh eclipsed the sun. The meth- 



ods and devices therefor are multiple. 
The Edison Light Company is prepared 
to install the very latest and best, the 
Tungsten lamp, specially designed to 
meet the general movement to have all 
store fronts all glass. The day of fast- 
closed shutters for business houses has 
passed. The electric light has simply 
revolutionized merchandizing. It makes 
merchants independent of daylight on 
dark and cloudy days. It enables goods 
to be shown as clearly then or at night, 
as in the day time. 

For lighting store fronts His Tung9ten 
lamp is an ideal one for dry goods, and 
the big department stores, where women 
do most of their shopping, for they like 
to see what they are buying. If the day 
is cloudy, they don't like to go to the 
street to examine, or find when they get 
home that their purchase is blue, when 
green was wanted. The Tungsten lamp 
shows colors and fabrics in their true 
light, and with it they can always be 
safely matched. For lighting store 
fronts, its brilliancy permits it to be 
placed high up above the line of vision, 
thus giving full effect of the display. A 
window so lighted, at night, is sugges- 
tive to the passer by of a purchase on the 
morrow, and moreover, it makes the 
street more attractive. 

The expression is often heard that elec- 
tric lighting is too expensive. That de- 
pends entirely on how it is used. Cus- 
tomers would be surprised if they know 
how large is the waste of electricity, or 
light, with too much light where not 
needed, the indiscriminate use of globes 
and reflectors by which the light is ab- 
sorbed, or directed where it should not 
be. Especially is this shortage true of 
store window lighting. These globes and 
reflectors should be intelligently used to 
distribute the light in desired directions. 
To install them in satisfactory manner 
requires expert study of the curves of 
reflected light. It is not the lamps that 
people want to see, but the illumination 
from them. Illumination is not light, but 
the effect of light. Reflectors with the 
proper curves to distribute illumination 
with best effect have been devised, which, 
with the Tungsten lamp, will add a bril- 
liancy to a store front surprisingly at- 
tractive. Over one thousand of those 
lamps are in use in the city, and the 
number is rapidly being increased. The 
patrons declare that,.the light is efficient, 
and brilliant, and that its use has reduced 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



65 



Jieir lighting expenses about 50 per 
cent over ordinary incandescent lights 
without consuming any more current. 
The Edison Light Company would lie 
pleased to demonstrate its efficiency in 
some of the new spacious store fronts. 
The company has recently been re-incor- 
porated, and its capital increased to 
$5,000,000, for the purpose of raising 
the necessary $1 ,000.000 to be put into 
immediate improvements. The company 
has evidentlv come to stay, and go into 
partnership "with the city in growth and 
prosperity. 

THE CITY RAILWAY. 
A visit to the power house of the city 
railway, and an inspection of the large 
array of new and expensive machinery, 
and the equally large storage of machin- 
ery discarded to give place to the new, 
will surprise the average person, and 






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Turbine Steam Engines 

very quickly satisfy the visitor where a 
large portion of the nickel car fare goes, 
and why there is nothing left for the 
stockholders. The fact is, such is the 
increase in traffic, and demand for ser- 
vice, every dollar earned, and more, too, 
is required to meet it. For instance, 
during the last summer, such were the 
indications of an unusual crowd of people 
during state fair week, with several state 
conventions added, the managers fore- 
saw that increased power was necessary 
to move the people from place to place, 
and avoid a repetition of the event sever- 
al years ago when at the time the crowd 
was the largest, pulling power at the 
power house failed to meet the exigency, 
a Westinghouse-Parson Turbine Steam 
Engine — a Twentieth Century marvel for 
producing power, was plirdvscd at a 
verv heavy cost and instilled. 

For nearly two hundred years the re- 
ciprocating steam engine has held undis- 
puted sway as a motive power, ami en- 
joyed uninterrupted development. Bui 
experience has proven that there is a 
limit to reciprocating motion beyond 



which it cannot go. To overcome that 
has been the constant endeavor of inven- 
tive genius, largely prompted by the 
rapid progress of the application of elec- 
tricity to power, for, to produce electrical 
energy both speed and power is required. 
About the year 120 B. C., Hero, of Alex- 
andria, invented a turbine steam engine 
of small capacity. In 1629, A. D., Rran- 
ca, of Italy, invented one of another type. 
Roth proved ineffective for general use. 
Prototypes of them were constructed, but 
they made no headway against the recip- 
rocating engine until early in 1884, when 
Hon. Chas. A. Parsons, of England, be- 
gan experimenting with the turbine type, 
and after several years' labor succeeded 
in perfecting what is destined to super- 
sede the reciprocating engine entirely, for 
every intelligent person knows that there 
is practically no limit to the speed of 
ri it'iry motion. 

The Westinghouse Electric Company 
purchased the patent rights of the Parson 
type for the United States and at once 
applied their abundant resources to per- 
fect an engine adapted by both speed and 
power to the various necessities required. 
It proved a success, and that is the type 
of engine installed in the power house. 
The wonder of it, is the tremendous 
power — twenty thousand horse power — 
produced in so small a space. It is a 
mere pigmy compared with the Corliss 
reciprocating piston engine of the same 
power and capacity ; occupies less than 
one-sixth of the same floor space, and 
the same less space in elevation : requires 
no masonry foundation, or bolting down, 
and can be installed on any floor. Its 
simplicity is another of its marvels, as 
it consists of but two elementary parts, 
the motor and cylinder, the latter being 
the outer shell. It requires no balance 
wheel. 

I Hiring the state fair week this little 
giant did its work, pulling the crowded 
cars without a grunt or hitch, verifying 
the adage tint the most valuable things 
are put in small packages. 

It was with this type of engine, now 
being adopted on ocean steamships, that 
the Lucania m?de the record breaking 
trip from Liverpool to New York. 

Not only is the city railway company 
seeking improvements in its machinery 
department, but also in its service, by 
forestalling the negligence and careless- 
ness of i> Irons, and to prevent accidents. 
In our < October number was given one of 



66 



THE MIDWESTERN 



its orders to motormen. Since then, the 
order has been revised and made more re- 
strictive, as shown on this page. Perti- 
nent, and supplemental to this order is 
the caution given in a public bulletin is- 
sued by the company, saying to patrons: 
i. It is your right and duty to have 
the car come to a dead stop before you 
get on or off. 

2. Do not attempt to board, or alight 
from, a moving car, unless you are will- 
ing to assume the risk. 

3. Help us to prevent accidents. Help 
us to give good service. 

While the company is making every 
possible effort to please their patrons, it 
is somewhat aggravating to know that 
some of them take advantage of the lib- 



eral and voluntary granting of transfers 
and sell them, possibly for a newspaper, 
or cigar, or give them to others to be 
used. The writer hereof has personal 
knowledge of a man who regularly, every 
day, on coming to his business, will get 
a transfer and give it to his clerk to go 
for his breakfast, dinner and supper. 
How extensively this is done, or how 
much the company loses by such a petty 
form of pilfering, there is no means of 
determining. It may not be, but it comes 
very near being a crime. In Chicago, it 
has been discovered that scalpers have 
been doing an extensive and profitable 
business buying and selling transfers, and 
some of them are in a fair way to get 
to the penitentiary. 



Des'.%fames,Jowa, JUL 2 190tl ioq 

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Pay(l^d^^2s^J^:^^^or order, $/&&£T 




FINE RECORD OF J. C. O'DONNELL 



The above check was handed to John 
H. Hogan, the new treasurer of the 
Des Moines Board of Education, on 
July 2d by J. C. O'Qonnell, the out- 
going treasurer, who had held the 
office eight years. 

Mr. O'Donnell has been with the 
German Savings Bank for seven years 
and has made for himself an enviable 



record as a rising young banker. He 
is at present cashier of the bank, and 
he has a host of personal as well as 
business friends in Des Moines and 
Iowa who rejoice in his success. Dur- 
ing the eight years of his treasurership 
of the Des Moines Board of Education, 
his accounts never showed a difference 
of one cent. 





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IOHN H. IIOGAN 
New I reasurer of the Des Moines Board of Education 



BEST PLACE IN TOWN 

It has been a matter of surprise to 
(many persons whose experience with 
dry cleaners has not been exactly good, 
to find that THE NEW WARDROBE, 
presided over by Ed Crawford, who is 
an expert in his line of business, cleans 
everything to make it look like new, 
from the most sheer and delicate dress 
fabrics to the coarsest and heaviest 
things, even heavy floor rugs and por- 
tieres. Now is the time of year to get 
nut furs, overcoats, tailored suits and 
the men's winter garments and have 
them put into perfect order for winter. 
No matter what the material, a sur- 
prise will be in store for the owner 
upon its return from The Wardrobe. 
One good customer has declared that 
in three years of continual patronage, 
she never fails to have a delightful sur- 
prise when things come home. Ge( ac 
miainted with THE NEW WARD 
R( (BE, 814 Locusl St. 




ARTHUR REYNOLDS 

President of the Des Moines National Bank 




THE UNSETTLED CURRENCY PROBLEM 



By Arthur Reynolds 

President Des Moines National Bank, Des Moines, Iowa. 
From paper read at the National Bankers' Association at Denver 



The development of the crop of cur- 
rency reform ideas has been persistent 
and continuous since the convention of 
the American Bankers' Association «held 
in St. Louis, three years ago, when this 
subject was brought before the bankers 
of the country for serious consideration. 
It has been a campaign of education, 
thq scope and influence of which has 
gradually broadened until today, every 
thinking banker and business man is 
interested in the subject. 

In the preparation and presentation of 
a plan for a new currency issue, to the 
St. Louis Convention, as chairman of the 
Federal Legislative Committee, I be- 
came thoroughly convinced, as had num- 
erous bankers and political economists 
throughout the country, that our periddi- 
cal financial disturbances and the plethor- 
ic and destitute conditions of the money 
market in certain seasons of the year, 
were not alone due to mere chance, but 
that some potent factor of our financial 
system was not in keeping with the won- 
derful commercial development and ad- 
vancement of our country ; and that the 
country at large would in time become 
aroused to this fact. However, I little 
dreamed that the currency subject would 
be taken up so readily and seriously by 
the public. Prior to the St. Louis conven- 
tion, the bankers of the country regarded 
the subject #ith indifference— I may say 
as a joke. Those of us who attended 
the convention of the American Bankers' 
Association in New Orleans six years 
ago, have not forgotten the hisses which 
attended the speech of Congressman 
Charles N. Fowler presenting Credit 
Currency. Indeed, Mr. Fowler and the 
late Mr. Eckels of Chic^eo were hissed 
by meetings of bankers in my own state 
but a few years ago. 

CONSIDERED FROM ALL VIEW 
POINTS 

During the last three years the cur- 
rency subject has been discussed from 
almost every view point imaginable. 



Congressmen, who three years ago look- 
ed upon the necessity for currency re- 
form only as a hobby of Mr. Fowler's, 
with which they were willing for him 
to amuse himself before his Committee 
of Banking and Currency in the House, 
and use for oratorial efforts on the plat- 
form, have had a sudden awakening. 
This is demonstrated not only by person- 
al conversations I have had with some 
of the members of both bodies in Con- 
gress, but by the fact that the subject 
has been brought to the ffront to such 
an extent that it was one of the most 
prominent under consideration in the 
last term of Congress. 

At a meeting of the Currency Commis- 
sion, held in Washington; during: the 
month of April, we were told by the 
President, Speaker Cannon and other 
prominent leaders, that something must 
be clone, not only to satisfy the constitu- 
ency of Congressmen, but it was believed 
that the recurrence of a panicky condi- 
tion in this country was sooner or later 
practically certain to occur unless some 
legislation was passed to relieve the sit- 
uation. 

One of the first questions usually 
asked is, "Why is it necessary to have 
anv additional issues of currency?" 

EXPERIENCES OF 1907 NOT 
EASILY FORGOTTEN 

Who among us will soon forget the 
occurrence of last year? The dawn of 
1907 was upon one of the most prosper- 
ous conditions this country had ever 
experienced. Our people had drunk deep 
from the cup of success. Prices of all 
kinds of property had advanced to almost 
undreamed of proportions. We were at 
peace with all the world. The financial 
operations of the country had been upon 
a gigantic scale. The pockets of the 
people fairlv bulged with the newlv ac- 
nuired wealth, there was nothing in the 
horizon to indicate that our prosperity 
would ever cease. So enraptured were 
the people that to suggest there was any- 



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IMBJII III 




•airings lank 

Capital, $100,000.00 

Surplus, 50,000.00 

Undivided Profits 50,000.00 

C. H. MARTIN, President 

T. F. FLYNN, Vice President 
F. P. FLYNN, Cashier 
E. A. SLININGER, 

Asst. Cashier 



thing wrong with our currency system, 
was to place one's sanity almost in ques- 
tion, and to be looked upon as a dreamer 
too visionary to be trusted. 

EARLY SIGNS WERE IGNORED 

In February the slack began to be tak- 
en up and the financial world was sud- 
denly aroused to the fact that something 
was wrong, but the confidence of the 
people remained firm, and while we were 
given food for thought, we settled down 
to a closer money condition with inter- 
est rates ranging higher than for many 
years. While the strongest mercantile 
paper could be bought in the market 
from 7 to 8 per cent discount, a feature 
in itself which should have aroused 
bankers to a full realization of the situ- 
ation, yet many could only listen to the 
Siren's voice, and looked upon it as a 
season of harvest and failed to appre- 
ciate that our financial structure was 
being undermined, that it hid already 
begun to quiver and weave, and was 
ready to collapse on a moment's notice. 

THE SHOCK TO CREDIT SEVERE 
On that fateful October 28th, the crisis 
was reached ; the crash came. There 
Happened something that will stand as a 
blot upon the financial history of this 
country, so long as the stars and stripes 
shall wave. It was a crime, unthinkable, 
coining from a progressive, educated 
people. We have been taught and have 
believed that our financial system excelled 
that of any other nation, that our money 
was the best, that our banks were the 






strongest. But to suspend payment, not 
as an individual bank, not as to the batiks 
of one city or community, but for prac- 
tically the entire banking fraternity 
throughout the length and breadth of our 
land to refuse to pay out money in any 
quantities over their counters in response 
to the legitimate demands of their cus- 
tomers — to commit such an act of insol- 
vency — I sav was a crime, forced upon 
the banks, but none the less a crime. The 
entire business world was aroused by 
this act and the integrity of the banking 
business of the country was brought into 
question. 

UNIVERSAL SUSPENSION 
UNTHINKABLE 

I sav it was absolutely unthinkable that 
practically all of the banks of the country 
should suspend payment. Was it a lack 
of skill, ability or intelligence of the 
bankers of the country? No, but an irre- 
sponsible, inelastic currency system, a 
lack of the proper tools with which to 
carry on the commerce of the country. 

The causes of the panic were many, 
but principally over expansion and in- 
flexibility of our currencv system, coupled 
witli the desire of some New York banks 
to exterminate others. The publicity 
given to the demands made upon some 
banks for the retirement of certain offi- 
cers augmented the apprehension which 
had been aroused in the minds of the 
people and as the reserve of the New 
York hanks decreased, failures increased. 
Hankers themselves became alarmed. 



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71 



German Savings Bank 



Dcs Woines, loma 
Capital $100,000.00 



COMMERCIAL BANKING 



JAMES WATT, 

President 



JESSE O. WELLS, 

Vice President 
J. C. O'DONNELL, 

Cashier 

Four per cent interest paid on savings accounts 



They began to call in loans and made an 
attempt to build up their cash reserves. 

It has been stated that the hoarding of 
cash played an important part, and that 
the credit medium of exchange furnished 
by the banks of the country is based on 
their cash reserve. A crisis is due to the 
sudden contraction of credit, which can 
only be prevented by providing sufficient 
bank credits in the shape of bank notes 
to meet the requirements for cash and 
maintain the confidence of the public. 

LACK OF MOBILITY IN OUR 
CREDITS 

The paramount feature of our present 
system is this lack of mobility in our 
credits. It will be admitted bv anyone 
who has given the subject any thought 
that money conditions in this country 
are at a violent variance with conditions 
prevailing in other countries. Interest 
rates here range higher and lower than 
in any other country. Every fall we have 
a season of depression and every sum- 
mer a season of unnecessary expansion 
and activity. This is occasioned because 
we are not equipped as other nations. 
We have no elasticity in our currency. 
In order to be in a position to furnish 
actual cash to move the crops, banks in 
large cities must carry a reserve through- 
out the summer, which would amount to 
contraction and would not provide a 
profit sufficient to encourage capital to 
engage in the banking business ; or thev 
must in the fall eat into their reserves 
and undermine the safety of the system. 



HOW GERMANY MET THE CRISIS 

In one week last November, the Im- 
perial Bank of Germany issued 100 mil- 
lion dollars of credit notes to exchange 
for its other credit obligations (being 
about the amount of gold imported into 
this country to allay the panic). In this 
while banks may issue book credits for 
deposits, even though such credit is is- 
sued in lieu of a deposit of our circulat- 
ing notes, yet the vital function of ex- 
changing credit notes for book credits, 
such as is enjoyed by the German Bank 
thereby preventing trouble, is withheld 
from the banks and therein lies the prin- 
cipal weakness in our system. 

I believe that a currency, provided 
with sufficient elasticity to overcome these 
defects will add much to the stability of 
our financial system and in a large meas- 
ure aid in preventing future trouble. 

BANKERS PLAN NOT 
INFLATION 

Some regard the banker's measure as 
inflation. Permit me to sav that it is 
absolutely impossible to have inflation 
where the demand for the notes has been 
created in advance of the issue. Take 
it in Des Moines, when the bank with 
which I am connected is having a heavy 
demand for currency and we are shipping 
$100,000 to $150,000 per day to take 
care of the demand from the country, it 
is immaterial whether we supply it with 
gold certificates, bond-secured notes or 
credit notes — the currency must be sup- 



72 



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OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT is 

special reference to the needs and convenience 
with a fixed income "who desires to lay aside small 
to time. 

Accounts may be opened at any time, draw interest 
and are payable on demand. 


equipped with 

of the individual 

sums from time 

at 4 per cent, 



Central 


State Bank 


215-217 


FIFTH STREET 


H. B. HEDGE, Pres. 

J. D. WHISENAND, Vice-Pies. 


J. G. OLMSTED, Vice-Pres. 
FRED S. RISSER. Cashier. 



plied. Hence the issue of credit notes 
cannot be regarded as expansion. 

This credit currency would not enable 
a bank in New York to expand its loans 
a dollar. As has been explained, banks 
loan on reserve — credit notes cannot 
count for reserve. Hence if a New York- 
bank paid out $100,000 of these credit 
notes in payment of a check, the bills 
would be deposited with another New 
York bank, within in hour the bills 
would be presented by the latter to the 
former for redemption in order to get 
reserve — gold. So it will be seen they 
could not be kept in circulation over the 
day. 

PRACTICE AMONG NEW YORK 

BANKS 

The practice now among New York- 
banks is to collect $5,000 to $10,000 of 
bond-secured bills and immediately for- 
ward them for redemption and get the 
gold. Banks do not pay them out over 
their counters at all ; in fact they will 
not circulate in New York. The opera- 
tion of credit notes would be the same. 

In the fall, however, the banks in New 
York would issue the credit notes and 
ship them to the country for use, and 
they would stay out only so long as the 
money remained in the pockets of the 
people. As soon as it reached a bank of 
issue, it would be retired, so they could 
issue one of their own at a nrofit. New 
York banks do not at any time need ac- 
tual currency for their own use. They 
have a svstem of bank credits, checks 



and deposits. Money circulates only in 
very limited amounts. 

WOULD RETAIN BOND-SECURED 
CURRENCY 

It was wisely provided that the pro- 
posed issue of credit currency should be 
based upon the oresent bond-secured cir- 
culation of the banks, and that the total 
issue of the bond-secured and credit 
money should not exceed the present lim- 
itation, which is too per cent of the capi- 
tal. Hence, no expansion is provided for, 
but greater facilities are afforded for the 
marshalling of currency to meet the un- 
usual demands for it in different parts of 
the country, at different seasons, and 
indeed, this is the foremost object of the 
proposed measure. 

LIKES THE BANKERS' PLAN 

A plan for issuing currency must be 
adopted. One has been devised by the 
Bankers' Association Currency Commis- 
sion, which while different in some es- 
sential points from other plans proposed, 
will give equal issuing advantage to every 
bank and meet the situation with safety. 
We have built up a great commercial 
center along new lines, and our currency 
problem must be met in a new way. 

I believe that the plan proposed by the 
Currency Commission is not only safe, 
but will' furnish us with the tools with 
which to carry on our commerce in a 
more scientific and economic manner, 
providing currency to move our cotton 
crop amounting to hundreds of millions 




THE UNSETTLED CURRENCY PROBLEM 



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of dollars, and our enormous agricultural 
products without creating disturbances in 
our money market, particularly in the 
money centers in active seasons. Such a 
money system would show to the world 
that our unprecedented prosperity is tem- 
pered with a safe and adequate currency 
System much in advance of methods used 
by foreign countries. 
SEES GOOD IN THE SUFFOLK 

SYSTEM 
It will be seen that if the Suffolk. Indi- 
ana, and Canadian systems have proven 
sale, elastic and satisfactory, a currency 
secured by the assets of banks and a 
guarantee fund, protected by a moderate 



but ample tax, subject to daily redemp- 
tion in gold, with privilege of issue op- 
tional but extended alike to large and 
small banks, unusual in its safeguards 
and limitations, if given an opportunity 
would operate automatically to meet our 
needs, would prevent redundancy and 
contraction, would be absolutely safe at 
all times and would give us the elements 
so much needed in taking care of the 
expanding commerce of this greatest na- 
tion on the globe, and by furnishing us 
with bank notes which would come out 
promptly and liquidate our bank credits, 
would prevent the periodical upheavals 
which have been the curse of the nation. 



OUR INVITATION 

This bank has been transacting a conservative banking 
business for twenty-seven years. It invites you to join 
the large number of prudent careful pt-oplewho during 
that time have found their backing relations with it 
both agreeable and profitable; placing at your disposal 
the equipment of one of the stronge.-t financial institu- 
tions in the State of Iowa. Checking accounts especially 
invited. 4 per cent interest paid on Savings accounts 
of $1.00 and upwards 

Resources [over] $4,500,000.00 

Des /Moines National Bank 

Des Moines, Iowa 




FRED S. R1SSER 
Cashier (Vntr, || Srai/> H;<nL 




This little girl was 
born and reared a 
Republican and 
taught to love and 
honor our Presi- 
dent. A year ago 
her mother took her 
to Washington and 
when shown the 
President's room in 
the capitol building 
she looked around 
in awe and said 
' ' Why, Mamma, 
where's his throne?" ' 



LOUISE M. BR1GGS 

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Briggs, of Amesbury, Mass., 
and niece of the editor of The Midwestern 



JUST YOU AND I 



For a long time I have had it in 
mind to ask you, dear friend and read- 
er, to talk things over with me each 
month. Shall we begin now? Some- 
times we will walk over yonder in the 
forest, while the squirrels watch and 
listen, and a belated blackbird calls to 
us, as we stir the dried leaves in our 
ramble, while the sunshine bathes the 
world in a warm wave of gold. Some- 
times we will stand on yonder hill, over- 
looking the valley, uplifting our faces 
to the kiss of the freshening winds and 
noting the blue line of the river far to 
the north. Sometimes in fierce joy, we 
will face the storm and be a part of the 
wildness that shrieks and laughs and 
beats about us. And, maybe, again we 



will sit in my small library, with the 
firelight playing over the faces of my 
books, and" kissing a sweet woman's 
lips, who smiles down from the wall 
above the mantel. Rut, wherever we 
shall be, we shall be free and unafraid, 

and heart shall speak to heart. 

* * * 

Don't you believe, that somewhere in 
the world or in the worlds, you may 
never have found just where, there is 
somebody with whom to be alone, to 
wander and talk or be silent, is better 
than all the concourse of one's daily 
world? Some men have found this 
companionship in a woman, some in an- 
other man, some, in a good dog or a 
splendid horse. Often a parent finds in 



JUST YOU AND I 




J. M. PIERCE. JR. 

Son of Mrs. Gertrude Pierce and Grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pierce 



B beloved child the ideal companion and 
the child finds in the love and tender- 
ness ui a parent something never again 
known in life I toe may devote unsel- 
fish years to the serving of others, may 
toil unceasingly with no ulterior 

thought, hut deep in the heart clamor., 
the wish for a companion, one who 

will understand, one who will give ten 

derness and sympathy and whose love 

neither circumstance nor time can 

change. To how mane is given the 
realization of this wish? 



I know a darling child, who, of all her 
dollies, loves an Ugly rat;' one the best. 
Tliis rag baby she always takes to bed 
with her, and once 1 asked her why that 
was the cine she preferred when she had 
so main prettier ones. "Cos she always 
listens and says yes when 1 talk to her," 
sh( replied A pretty pood reason, isn't 
it? I'o he companionable one must 
listen and say "yes" — at least a good 
part of the time. Horace Maun used to 
say that a satisfactory wife must he a 
pillow lor her husband something soft 



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HAROLD MARGARET GERTRUDE 

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Teachout 






and restful. And there are people who 
act upon one's nerves like the appear- 
ance of a dog does upon a sensitive 
cat. The sort one loves at first sight is 
the one who melts into a harmony with 
us, a person of reserve forces, whose 
daily nearness is an education and an 

uplift. 

* * * 

Someone wrote an editorial a few 
years ago that set the world by the ears. 
The cause of the commotion was the 
setting forth the idea that few married 
people are in harmony, good chums, 
much less lovers. The writer claimed 
that they were held together in most 
cases by circumstance and by the com- 
mon tie of parenthood. If this is true, 
it is a sorrv world, and marriage just 
enforces a duty, and duty is a hateful 
word. It would seem in looking back 
over the centuries, however, that there 
must have been a scarcity of real and 
lasting loves, because a few stand oul 
so boldly in relief against the dark 
background of history. CouH we have 
known Abelard and Heloise, Dante and 
Beatrice, Michelangelo an' Vittoria 
Colonna as we do, if they had not been 
exceptions to the general rule of infe- 
licitv? 

Ethel Rarrvmore, with the world at 
her feet, with wealth and health and 



glorious beauty besides, declares she is 
a lonely little girl in a big lonely world. 
She has not yet found that rarest ot 
things, a companion in the beautiful 
sense, m the uplifted glorified sense ol 
which she must have some ideal. The 
world is full of lonely hearts. Miss 
Rarrvmore is only one of them. Let 
us hope she will wait for a heart Ol 

true gold. 

* * * 

I have known many beautiful homes 
in which love abided, and among them 
all no lovelier one than the homy of 
Governor and Mrs. Cummins. Their 
personal comradeship is an ideal one. 
Upon the entering of her husband with 
public life. Mrs. 'Cummins shrank from 
the white light into which she was nec- 
essarily brought. Rut through this pub- 
licity, the people of Iowa have found out 
her noble sweetness of nature, her help- 
fulness, her graciousness and her gentle 
heart of sympathy toward all with 
whom she comes in contact. To Gover- 
nor Cummins his home is the dearest 
nlace on earth, his wife, daughter and 
little grandsons his treasures. Those 
who know him in his home, love htm 
best and feel most deeply the need Of 
such a man to represent our state in 
congress. When these two enter the 
political and social life at Washington, 
all lowans will be proud of them, for 



JUST YOU AND I 



77 




DONALD HARGREAVES 

Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hargreaves of Sheldah], Iowa, 
and nephew of Miss Forney 



both the governor and Mrs. Cummins 
arc especially equipped for the duties 
which will devolve upon them there. 

Do you see how the silver leaf maple 
which looked like a snow drift in the 
wind a few months ago, is now turned 

to gold? A more glorious beauty has 
Come lei n than it knew even in its vmitli 
and yr! the tree has just obeyed its own 
laws, has been kissed h\ the winds and 
sunshine and lived the life ( iod intended 
for it. In so doing it has gained 
strength and beauty. Are we not like 
this tree: When we go awav from the 
thing! intended for us, we cannot lie 

benefited l>\ them and thus become 

dwarfed and wretched. 



But, vim say, the tree stands here 
alone on the hillside, lonely, crying in 
the wind and tossing as restlessly as a 
weary heart ! And your thought goes 
out to another hillside where at dusk 
the stars look down upon a grave — 
covered today by the crimso 1 and gold 
of the falling leaves. Was there a com- 
panionship broken, never to he re- 
sumed? 

Don't vim know Thanksgiving is 
coming? luu there are tears in youi 
eyes. Yes I know; do we not all 
know-how hard ii is at Thanksgiving, 
more ihau on all other davs, to see thai 
empty chair at the table ~ J 

Miranda. 




JESSE EARLE MILLER 
Son of Judge and Mrs. Jesse A. Miller 




OUR LIBRARY TABLE 



By Carolyn M. Ogilvie 



I have to be profoundly thankful that 
in my home when a child, books were 
of more importance than fine furnish- 
ing, than society, than clothes. Books 
made a world for us in our log- cabin 
home, happier by far than many know 
in splendid apartments, and I remember 
the firelight glancing about 'those book- 
lined wails with keenest pleasure, for 
the familiarity with these great minds 
of all the ages has meant much to me in 
later years. I cannot understand the 
modern idea that a library is too expen- 
sive and is the last thing added in a' 
home. Then, too, many depend upon 



the public libraries for reading. To 
make a book your own, you must have 
it for a daily companion and ha.ve it al- 
ways near. 

I was not more than twelve years old 
when my father gave me a set of "Ma- 
caulay's Assays," and here is sometriin" 
1 never forgot ; from the essay on 
Bacon : "Such is the feeling which a 
man of liberal education naturally enter- 
tains toward the great minds of former 
ages. The debt which he owes to them 
is incalculable. They have guided him 
to truth. They have 'filled his mind with 
noble and graceful images. They have 



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79 



stooil 1>\ him in all vicissitudes, com- 
forters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, 
companions in solitude These friend- 
ships are exposed to no daiver from 
the occurrences by which other attach- 
ments are weakened or dissolved. Time 
glides on, fortune is inconstant, tem- 
pers are soured, bonds which seemed 
indissoluble are daily sundered V- in- 
terest, by emulation or by caprice. But 
DO such cause ca". 1 . effect the silent con- 
verse which we hold with the highest of 
human intellects. That placid inter- 
course is disturbed by no jealousies or 
resentments. These arc the old friends 
who are never foes, who are the same in 
wealth and poverty, in glory and abase- 
ment. With the dead there is no rival- 
ry. In the dead there is no change. 
Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is nev- 
er petulant. Demosthenes never comes 
unseasonably. Dante never stavs too 
long. No difference of political opinion 
can alienate Cicero. No heresy can ex- 
cite the honor of Bossuet." 

# « ■ 

Isn't this great writing? Anybody 
who can read and understand end ap- 
preciate Macaulay's Kssa->-= has a fund 
of information and a degree of culti- 
vation entitling him (or her) to the high- 
est position in the most literary Wom- 
en's Club extant. I wonder how many 
club women have ever given their chil 
dren Macaulay for a Christmas gift? 

# • # 

The season's gift books are appearing 
and among them the Robbs-Merrill Co. 
are offering an exquisite volume, 
"Home Again With Me," by Rilev, il- 
lustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. 
This will make a lovelv p-ift to a friend, 
wedding gift or for Christmas. "The 
( kphant Annie Book, illustrated by 
Ethel Franklin P.ctts, is another of their 
beautiful things, dainty enough for a 
princess. These volumes are readv now 
at the bookseller's. 



Little, Brown & Co. have revived 
Louisa M. Olcott's "Little Women" 
in ■ neat and attractive volume, with 
over two hundred illustrations by Frank 
T. Merrill and a picture of the author's 
home by Edmund H. Garrett. This 
book is of perennial popularity and 
charms both young and old. The price 
of the book, $1.00, brings it within the 
reach of all. 




MISS CAROLYN WELLS 



80 



"HE MIDWESTERN 




MEREDITH NICHOLSON 

The books of a year ago had such 
.-.n insistent note of sadness that they 
left in their wake a desire for more sun- 
shine, more optimistic views of life and 
of living, and this desire is being; ful- 
filled m the present season. Such fun 
as we have in some of them has not 

been km iwn in years. 

■ # * 

There's "The Bachelor and the 
Baby," by Margaret Cameron, a story of 
a most gallant old fellow, who, rather 
than see a young woman climb off the 
ears with a baby in her arms offers to 
take the child, which she hands f '> him 
as he stands on the platform, pops back 
tnto the car, train whistles awa' r and 
leaves the bachelor with the ba>— The 
fun just begins here and extends 
through the whole book. The Harpers 
bring this out. 

Another book full of humor mingled 
with exquisite pathos, is "Miss Esoer- 
ance and Mr. Wvcherly," by L. Allen 
Harkcr, "Miss" ITarker, by the was", 
although we would think it a man's 
name. There are two babies in this 
story also, and an old maid and bach- 
elor bringing them up. The setting of 
■a quaint old Scotch town is delightful 



and adds tci the fun in the storv. Thi: 

IS one <>i Scribners books. 

» * • 

Then the "Circular Stair Case," by 
Alary Roberts Rinehart, a ripping good 
detective story, in which an old maid 
auntie tells the tale, is full of laughs in- 
lerniingled with terrors from cover to 
cover. This is a book to keep one read- 
ing away into the "wee, sraa' hours." 



the climax is 
Brown Jug of 
\ich< ilson. 
that book 



reached in "The Little 
Kildare," by Meredith 
Anybody who could read 
and not double up and 
scream with laughter, wouldn't be of 
the right sort of human stuff. It is like 
Nicholson, too, wih its touches of grace 
hnd sweetness and he makes us love 
eveiybody in the book from the grave 
and handsome daughter of South Caro- 
lina, down to the desperado whose cap- 
ture is the motif for the story. Bobbs 
Merrill Co. bring both these books om 
in most attractive stvle. 



" 



I must in it forget our splendid ami 
darling "Peter," the hero of F. Hopkin- 
son Smith's last story, published by the-. 
Scribners, although he declares that he 
is not the hero, I could wish every novel 
had as dear a man in it as is Peter, old 
and unmarried and bald headed as he ft. 
He had a heart big enough for the 
whole world, and through his own in- 
herent nobility, gained the love and 
reverence of all who knew him. He was 
a cavalier, too, in a grand sense. This 
book is worth putting alongside of one's 
most precious volumes to keep always, 
and dip into again and again. Peter 
makes a sunshine for all his friends that 
means a warming up of the inmost 
heart. 

' * * 

The last voyage of the Donna Isabel 
is a sea-faring storv of Randall Parrish. 
and put into a handsome book bv the 
A. C. McClurg Co. The story fasens 
one's interest with the first page and 
there isn't a dull line in the book. 

The love story is especially noble ami 
tender and all is permeated bv the 
breath of the sea. This will make an at- 
tractive gift book. 

. • ♦ 

Little, Brown & Co. offer a charmin: 
book bv an Iowa author. "The Wide- 
awake Girls. VoL T." bv Kathenm 



Ruth Ellis, of Charle: 



O'tv. Miss E1H' 



OUR LIBRARY TABLK 



■si 



.. .veil known by her verses wfhieh have 
frequently appeared in the Eastern 
magazines. This book is the first of a 
series and is a delightfully fresh and un- 
hackneyed story which begins with a 
letter to a magazine which brings Han- 
nah Eldred into communication with 
-iris living in Wisconsin, Oregon, and 
Germany. The circumstances which 
lake her to live with each of the three in 
turn, the variety of interests offered by 
the different surroundings, and the espe- 
cial qualities of these jolly, well-bred 
companions are described with anima- 
tion and with touches of delicious hum- 
or. Accurate accounts of schoolgirl life 
in Germany and experiences in a west- 
ern preparatory school, where Greek 
letter societies flourish, add novelty 
and interest, while the glimpses of 
simple, refined home life which arc 
shown to the reader throughout the 
hook, give it a background of never 

ceasing charm. 

■ • • 

"Handicapped," by Emery Pottle, and 
from the press of the John Lane Co., is 
a story of fascination and power, but 
so distinctively sad, it breaks one's 
heart in the end. It is realistic to a de- 
gree and leaves no answerable argu- 
ment. A young fellow whose mother 
was lovely in character and married to a 
beast, is left motherless at the age of 
seven, and grows up with a longing for 
good things, but all associations evil, 
and becomes so habituated to evil that 
he cannot escape from it. lie loves a 
Liirl who belongs to his mother's class, 
one who appreciates the latent good in 
the young man and at last she promises 
to marry him. The reader feels that a 
horrible traged) is to occur in this mar- 
riage, and it is with intense relief that 
the scene comes on in which the boy 
is killed by having his horse fall at the 
Mew York horse show. In "My Mamie 
Rose," by Owen Kildare. a transfor- 
mation was effected in a far more diffi- 
cult case. But in the present story, only 

doom was foreshadowed without a pos- 
sibility of escape, 

The LippincottS offer a strong storv 
in "Tli. Princess Dehra," by John Reed 

Scott. The volume is handsomelv illus- 
trated h\ Clarence F. Underwood ami 
"ill make an acceptable gift book, 
'■i.ind Dukes and I'rincesses and Col- 
onels of the Red Eiuzzars figure in this 
romance of intrigue and heroism and 




LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON 



love. It is fascinating 

finish. 



from start to 



In the "Duke's Motto," by McCarthy, 
and brought out by the Harpers, seven 
bravos, whose blades are ever at the 
service of the highest bidder, foregather 
on a late September evening at the Inn 
of the Seven Devils near the Castle of 
Calyus. Thev have been hired to kill 
the Duke of Nevers. Upon this sinis- 
ter conference comes, bv accident, Hen- 




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" What is it f " asked Hannah, hut no one answered her. 

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From "WIDE-AWAKE GIRLS" 
By Katharine Ruth Ellis. Little, Brown & Co., Publishers, Boston 



ri de Lagardere, adventurer. Knowing 
nothing of their purpose, he teaches the 
assembled ruffians the parry to the se- 
cret thrust of Nevers. Afterward he 
learns their fell design. Escaping from 
the inn room where the 1 - had trapped 
him, he contrives to reach the Duke and 
fight by his side in the darkness of the 
moat. De Nevers is stabbed from be- 
hind by Louis de Gonzague who steals 
out from the castle under cover of the 
attack. Henri de Laganlere swears to 
avenge the murder and thenceforth 



adopts the Duke's motto, "I am here!" 
How well he fulfills the oath is told in 
so masterly a fashion that even the 
most blase reader of romance cannot re- 
sist the headlong rush of the storv and 
the pungent savor of its excitement. 

J. L. McBrien, Superintendent of 
Public Instruction in Nebraska, says of 
Senator Bevcridge's Book of Speeches, 
"The Meaning of the Times:" "It > s 
the book of the hour. It gives anxious 
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t and the destinv of the republic 

Every voter in the United States, be- 
fore he goes to the ballot box in No- 
vember, should ponder seriously ovef 
The Meaning of the Times,' and es- 
pecially is this true of the young man 
who is to cast his first ballot for presi- 
dent." 

T Ian ild MacGrath, author of '"The 
Lure of the Mask," has the out-of-doors 
habit. It is said that most of his plots 
are concocted on horseback. Just at 
present he is at Cape Vincent, in New 
York, lbs publishers ventured to write 
him about some proofs. "Spare me if 
yon possibly can," he replied. "I have 
only twenty-four days of fishing left.'' 






ROSE AND LEAF 

By Madison Cawein, in the October 
Metropolitan Magazine. 



All the roses now are gone, 

All their glories shed : 

Here's a rose that grows not wan, 

Rose old. uve to wear upon 

■■i our fair breast instead. 

Everywhere sere leaves are seen, 
Golden, red, and gray : 

Here's a leaf forever green, 
Leaf of truth to hold between 
Your white hands alwav. 




From "JAPANESE LIFE IN TOWN 
AND COUNTRY" 

By G. W. Knox 



Mere's my leaf and here's my rose. 
Take them! They are yours. 
In my garden nothing; grows, 
Garden of my heart, God knows. 

Thai as lone endures. 



[Tie latest writer to get into the class 
oi Conan Doyle and Anna [Catherine 
Green as a concocter of mystery fiction 
ia Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of 
"The Circular Staircase." This book of 
curiously intricate plot had its origin in 
a familiar experience. Ask nine persons 
out ol leu to describe a spiral stairway, 
and they will leave off speech and begin 
making frantic gestures and gyrations. 
I he observance of this amusing spec- 
tacle suggested to Mrs. Rinehart that 
the circular staircase was an architec- 
tural device of romantic possibilities. 
I li> n. one summer, the Rineharts took 
a large country house, near a popular 
golf course. It was an ideal scene for 
ysteriqua happening, and over i'i tli' 



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right wing was the circular staircase it 
sell! I lie stor\ was worked out in this 
propitii >us atmosphere. 



Henry van Dyke, author of "The 
i louse of Kimrnon," has recently re- 
turned from a t rip through Palestine 
ami tells of his experiences and impres- 
sions of the country in a new book, 
"Outdoors in the Holy Land," to be 
published earl)' in November by the 
Scribners. Mr. van Dyke and his com- 
panions took their own caravan and 
traveled through the Holy Land, not in 
the beaten tourist path, but in their own 
time and way. 



Although Mr. George W. (.'able was 
born in Louisiana and fought on the 

Confederate side 1 during the ('ivil War. 
his home at present is iii North I lamp- 
ton. Mass.. \VieTe' he' has lived for a 
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The Strand Magazine for October is 
full of good things. "Salthoven," by W. 
W. Jacobs, and six short stories by 
eminent authors forming the chief at- 
traction. This is one of the most de- 
lightful magazines that comes to our 

table. 

* * * 

The November Delineator is the fin- 
est thing of its kind in the world. Its 
make-up is artistic and its contents 
would please the most fastidious. The 
story "Stradella," by F. Marion Craw- 
ford, grows in absorbing interest. A 

great Christmas number is promised. 

# # # 

Country Life in America for Novem- 
ber is superb and shows that even a 
good thing may surpass itself. This fine 
periodical is making many friends in 
the Middle West. 

V * * 

According to the present copyright 
law, it is impossible to protect the title 
of a book. The contents are protected, 
but the name is not. A particularly fla- 
grant and familiar case is The Man of 
the Hour.. This admirable title had been 
given commercial value by the success of 




Octave Thanet's popular novel. It was 
calmly appropriated and tacked on to a 
political comedy that was in no sense a 
dramatization of the book. 



And now comes the announcement that 
a play entitled The Best Man is being 
produced in Boston. Mr. Harold Mac- 
Grath might feel, with some justifica- 
tion, that his well-known story had se- 
cured to him a proprietary interest in 
that title, but the courts would not rec- 
ognize it. 



A SOUTHERN NIGHT 

By Edwin Carble Litsey 

Formless, and still, close-wrapped in 
darkness dense, 

The summer landscape breathed its re- 
dolence. 

Till, touched by moon-dawn a magi- 
cian's rod — 

It bloomed a flower in the hand of God ! 



Detective stories are by no means un- 
common, but a detective story as good 
as the complete novel in the September 
Lippincotfs is, and all who care for this 
type of fiction would do well to get a 
copy. The tale is entitled "The Investi- 
gation at Holman Square," and the auth- 
or is Nevil Monroe Hopkins, who has 
already made quite a name for himself 
in this field. Mr. Hopkins combines 
great powers of invention with a knack 
of telling a story straightforwardly and 
without circumlocution, yet in a way 
which doesn't permit the interest to lag 
for a minute. The story opens with the 
finding of a love letter on a New York 
street by a young electrician, who adver- 
tises it, and thereby starts a series of 
startling events. The reader will find 
himself completely baffled as to the real 
perpetrator of the murder in Holman 
Square, just as were the police in the 
story — until the private detective, Mason 
Brant, unravelled the mystery. The auth- 
or has made good use of his own expert 
knowledge of electrical subjects in work- 
ing out the plot. 



"Redemption," by Rene Bazin, the 
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weeks ago, is proving to be almost as 
popular as "The Nun." It is a profound- 
ly powerful and realistic story of a beau- 
tiful young milliner in a small French 
city. The description of her work and 
her companions, of her difficulties and' 
surroundings is done with a power and 
feeling that make a remarkable story. 
The gradual development of her char- 
acter and of her purpose in life is told 
with the simplicity, the power and the 
deep feeling that make a lasting impres- 
sion. As one of the reviewers said : 

"The book contains wonderfully realis- 
tic pictures of the Loire and its boats 
rising and falling with the current, of 
the fisher-folk who draw their living from 
its water, of Etienne, the young boatman, 
whose love was poured at Henriette's 
feet only to elecit a tender regret that 
such warmth of affection could inspire 
only sisterly regard in return — all these 
scenes are impressed upon the heart and 
mind, and leave a sense of the brother- 
hood of man, the sisterhood of woman, 
and the responsibility laid upon the in- 
dividual life in its attitude toward 
others." 



A new book by William T. Hornaday, 
to be called "Camp-Fires on Desert and 
Lava," copiously illustrated, will be one 
of the most important books of this Fall. 
Mr. Hornaday's new book is in some 
ways the complement of his "Camp-Fires 
in the Canadian Rockies," which it re- 
sembles in size, type, and general appear- 
ance. In it he tells the story of an ex- 
pedition which he and a party of friends 
made from Tucson, Arizona, across the 
desert to the hitherto unknown region 
surrounding Pinacate in Northwestern 
Mexico. As a narrative of unique exper- 
iences in the trackless desert of South- 
ern Arizona and in the rugged and un- 
charted mountains of Northwestern 
Mexico, the book will appeal to all lovers 
of the free out-of-door life which Mr. 
Hornaday knows so well how to de- 
scribe. 



Esther Chamberlain died at Mt. Clem- 
ens, Michigan, on September 20. She 
was the author of two popular novels, 
Mrs. Essington and The Coast of 
Chance, written in collaboration with her 
sister Lucia, and of a number of short 
stories and poems. Miss Chamberlain 
was born in San Francisco, and the ro- 



mance of the old city, its possibilities 
for the unexpected, particularly its reck- 
less, indomitable youth, made a deep 
impression upon her. This impression 
she has reproduced in The Coast of 
Chance, as well as in a new novel, com- 
pleted shortly before her death, which is 
promised for publication next year. Her 
life was one of singular devotion to lit- 
erary work and literary ideals. The 
Bobbs-Merrill Company. October, 1908. 



The Little Brown Jug at Kildare, the 
whimsical title of Meredith Nicholson's 
whimsical story, recalls the song which 
was so popular fifty years ago. Many 
versions of this bibulous ballad were 
current then. 



An important article in the October 
Woman's Home Companion, is entitled 
"Seeking Shelter in New York.". "Five 
dollars in my purse, a few plain clothes 
in my bag, an ordinary school education 
behind me, and New York, with its 
boundless opportunities, ahead of me," 
that is the beginning of the adventures 
in New York of Lucy Green. They are 
real adventures of a real girl, who tells 
her story to readers of the Companion. 



A rather ludicrous circumstance, oc- 
curring at a Chinese funeral in Canton, 
was witnessed not long ago by Frederic 
S. Isham, author of The Lady of the 
Mount. All Chinese want big funerals, 
and many estates are almost reduced to 
nil by the time the dear departed has 
been ostentatiously borne to the final 
resting-place. The ceremony the novel- 
ist witnessed was unusually pretentious. 
There were scores of men in line ; doz- 
ens of caged doves ; many varieties of 
flowers, sweets and confections, and all 
the diversified trappings dear to the 
"heathen" sense of what is fit and prop- 
er. The coffin, a mighty sarcophagus, 
was carried on great poles by about 
eighty men, and, to add to the effective- 
ness of the spectacle, directly in front of 
the pall-bearers a brass band tooted nois- 
ily as the procession made its way 
through the town. Rut what was it 
playing? Snatches from a two-step? — 
Yes and there was no doubt about it:! — 
As they bore that erstwhile mandarin on, 
the triumphant strains of There'll Be a 
Hot Time rang proudly nut. 



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IMPATIENT SUSIE 

"Oh, I can't thread this needle, ma," 

Was little Susie's cry; 
"Just as the thread is going through, 

The needle winks its eye." 

— October Woman's Home Companion. 
» # # 

The short stories that Edith Wharton 
has written during the last four years 
will be published in a volume this month 
under the title of "The Hermit and the 
Wild Woman." There are eight stories 
in the book including "The Hermit and 
the Wild Woman," "The Last Asset," 
"In Trust," "The Pretext," "The Ver- 
dict," "The Pot-Boiler," "The Best 
Man," and "Latmos." Mrs. Wharton 
is perhaps the greatest master of the 
short-story writing in English today and 
these tales represent the climax of her 

art. 

» # • 

When Mary Roberts Rinehart was 
reading the proof-sheets of her mys- 
tery story, The Circular Staircase, she 
was traveling through New England, 
and had the long galleys with her in a 
grip. After a night in an upper berth, 
the porter told her the train stopped at 
Portland forty minutes for breakfast. 
Mrs. Rinehart got out and dashed into 
the restaurant for a cup of coffee and 
a canteloupe. Fifteen others from her 
car did the same. The Lady Who 
Waits had hardly deigned to notice the 
Woman Who Writes when, glancing 
toward the door, the latter saw the 
train pulling out. She and her com- 
rades stood not upon the order of their 
going. Pell-mell thev dashed out, hold- 
ing beseeching hands toward their 
possessions, their notebooks, their 
tooth-brushes, the embryonic best-sell- 
er ! The train didn't stop. Didn't even 
hesitate. Went on and on. There were 
two Catholic priests who said what they 
thought in Latin, which didn't help 
much. There were an Episcopal clergy- 
man, a professor of something or other, 
six women, several children and a col- 
lie dog. They stopped the train a hun- 
dred and fifty miles away and cut out 
the Pullman, empty, except for a pallid 
and cowering porter. Then the com- 
pany sent the miserables on to it by ac- 
commodation. They had lost five hours. 
Thev had not breakfasted or lunched. 
So they entered the car in a mass, fell 
on the porter and tore him to shreds. 
Then, when they had cleaned up the 



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• # • 

Miss Jerry Dangerfield, the heroine 
of Meredith Nicholson's new novel, is 
introduced to the reader in the act of 
winking at a young man out of a car 
window. Mr. Nicholson classifies the 
wink, after the manner of Jacques on 
the lie. "There is the wink inadvert- 
ent," he says, "to which no meaning 
can be attached." There is the wink 
deceptive, usually given behind the back 
of a third person. And then, to be 
brief, there is the wink of mischief, 
which is observed occasionally in per- 
sons of exceptional bringing up." Miss 
Dangerfield's wink is assigned to the 
third class. But when she met the 
young man again she denied that she 
had winked at all. Mr. Nicholson finds 
'w. immortal song but one allusion to 
the wink. He quotes from Browning: 
"All heaven, meanwhile, condensed in- 
to one eye, 
Which fears to lose the wonder, should 

it wink." 

• # » 

Instant, virile, and vigorous treat- 
ment of what is really large and signifi- 
cant is the thing which The Outlook does 
better than any other periodical in the 
United States. In The Outlook the selec- 
tive idea prevails. 

• • • 

Three books of the Harpers, "The 
Genial Idiot," bv Tohn Kendrick Bangs; 
"Davie and Elisabeth," by Muriel 
Campbell Dyar, and "The Shadow 
World," by Hamlin Garland, are widely 
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big fund of material constantly em- 
ployed by this firm of book makers. _ 

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does not? — in regard to the world which 
lies bevond our mental sense. 

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it sympathetically. 



A conservatory that is a beautiful and 
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The October number of The Ladies' 
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A FEW EXPRESSIONS IN REGARD 
TO THANKSGIVING 

It seems to me that Iowa should be 
thankful for a past which has brought 
to her people a larger measure of pros- 
perity than Nature has vouchsafed to any 
other region. Before her stretches a fu- 
ture full of opportunities — of great things 
yet undone. For the young man there 
lies in the future the building of the 
greatest commerce in the world. The 
old man can look back upon a life of com- 
fort and peace. Iowa is blessed with the 
things that are done, and is fortunate in 
the things worthy of the metal of good 
men that yet remain to be done. 

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I consider Iowa one of the most fav- 
ored states in the Union. Its fertile 
soil has secured for it the name of being 
the "agricultural garden" of America. Its 
inhabitants are progressive, intellectually 
and religiously, as evidenced by the num- 
ber of its schools, churches and benevo- 
lent institutions, which would compare 
favorably in architectural design, beautv 
and solidity with similar such buildings in 
any part of the world. For all these 
blessings the great state of Iowa should 
celebrate with gratitude Thanksgiving 
day. With kindest regards, 

M. Flavin. 

I would suggest that the resident of 
Iowa can feel thankful for the fact that 
it is one of the most productive states in 
the Union where the horn of plenty ob- 
scures the depressing vision of want 
which afflicts localities less favored. With 
boundless mines, and a soil as rich as 
any in the world : with a happy country 
and urban population ; with schools and 
churches on every hands and with a 
growing culture that secures recogni- 
tii 11 in intellectual centers, why should 
not the Iowan be proud? 

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Iowa is the most prosperous state in 
the Union. This is because Iowa is an 
agricultural state and is not easily af- 
fected by any ordinary financial distur- 
bance. It is frequently stated that in 
the aggregate, Iowa never has a crop 
failure. The annual value of the crops 
for the entire state is somewhere 
around $350,000,000. This is absolutely 
new wealth, wealth that has not here- 
tofore been in the world. Certainlv Iowa 
can rejoice that it is situated so fortu- 
nately and that its prosperity is depen- 
dent upon agriculture. It is exceedingly 
important for the consideration of 
those who wish to build up a permanent 
market for their products. They can 
bank upon it that a market in Iowa is 
never destroyed by anything short of a 
national calamity. Iowa markets are un- 
affected by strikes, lockouts and the av- 
erage commercial depressions. Cer- 
tainly it is a glorious state and a magni- 
ficent one in which to build up a busi- 
ness. Lafe Young, Jr. 

There is so much to say about Iowa 
at Thanksgiving time that one is bewild- 
ered. You may not recall how Iowa 
got an early boost. 

One cold winter day, when the leg- 
islature was in session at Iowa City, the 
noted Peter Cartwrig-ht was called on to 
open the session with prayer, whereupon 
he asked the Lord to make the politi- 
cians honest if he could, but failing in 
that, to be sure and give to the common 
people of Iowa orthodox religion, pure 
water and a sound currency. And the 
whole prayer was answered. 

At Saratoga, N. Y., recently, I was 
introduced as an Iowan to the venerable 
George L. Chase, president of the Hart- 
ford Fire Insurance company. Without 
a moment's hesitation he began to talk 
about my state. "Iowa," he swl" is be- 
yond question the greatest state in the 
Union. I know them all, have travelled 
and done business in every one of them. 
Iowa has the finest soil with the least 
waste land, has the most hogs and corn 
and cattle, the best horses and best men, 
of any of them. The general intelli- 
gence and moral character of the peo- 
ple, coupled with her advanced position 
along the line of education and christian 
work, gives Iowa pre-eminentlv the 
leadership in all the fair galaxv of Amer- 
ican commonwealths. As a place to live, 
surrounded by so much that makes for 



prosperity, peace and happiness, there is 
no place in the world to equal Iowa." 

Such a testimonial, from such a man, 
corroborates what other disinterested 
travellers have said of Iowa, and con- 
firms what many of us have been saying 
for years. 

Hence, answering your question, I 
would say we should be thankful that 
we live in the largest city of the best 
state of the greatest Nation in all the 
World. J. S. Clark. 

Iowa, Iowa, beautiful and bountiful, 
fragrant and fertile ; what has her people 
to be thankful for? 

Thanksgiving is a New England cus- 
tom, but George Washington issued the 
first National Thanksgiving proclama- 
tion. It is the harvest home festival; it 
is the home-coming day of family meet- 
ing. Around the Christian firesides of 
Iowa a grateful people will gather and 
give gracious recognition of the boun- 
ties of Almighty God. Health, prosper- 
ity and happiness are God given. 

John F. Lacey. 

Vermillion, S. D., Sept. 12, 1908. 
I have noted with much pleasure the 
progress of The Midwestern, and con- 
gratulate you on your second annivers- 
ary. Craig S. Thomas. 

Please accept my congratulations 
upon the good progress of The Mid- 
western and of its second birthday. I 
have only read sample copies of it, and 
am so well pleased with it that I have 
subscribed for it. 

John I. New, 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

A copy of The Midwestern was hand- 
ed to me by a friend and to say I was 
surprised to know a magazine of charac- 
ter, tone and worthiness so difficult to 
secure at our local news stands brought 
with it another surprise. 

The article on page 21 would have 
been largely sought after by our local 
readers were it known to be in exist- 
ence. 

The workmanship and good judgment 
shown in the article chosen for your 
publication should meet the approval of 
all who aspire to a higher educational 
attainment. Sincerely yours, 

W. J. Martime, 
Denver, Col. 



WHAT HAS IOWA TO BE THANKFUL FOR 



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REGISTER AND LEADER 

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DES MOINES, IOWA 



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Show that they know their business. They 
are FIRST-CLASS in every respect. Prompt 
Service and Best Work is their motto. 



Iowa, as a state, should be thankful 
for a climate that is conducive to enter- 
prise, for fields that need no irrigation, 
for its great churches and schools, for 
its Strong men and women and their fine 
patriotism. Across the country some- 
body once drew an imaginary belt, in 
which, this genius said, were necessarily 
born the nation's best men. I cannot un- 
qualifiedly confirm the claim that all good 
and great people are of Iowa birth or 
thai they originate from the bell pictured 
b) the dreamer. Yet for some reason our 
people are singularly good, and for the 
combination of blessings that makes them 
SO, l'i\va should be most thankful. 

A. J. Mathis, 
Mayor of I )es Moines. 



WHAT ARE YOUR BOYS 

AND GIRLS READING? 

I hey arc In mud to read something. 
I'hey will read trash unless you give 

them something better that is equally in- 
teresting. Try the Youth's Companion. 



There is plenty of adventure in the 
stories, and the heroes and heroines are 
of the real kind, finding in the line of 
duty opportunity for courage and unsel- 
fishness. More than 250 such stories 
will be published in the S- issues of the 
new volume for [909. There will be ful- 
ly as many articles, sketches and remin- 
iscences to impart useful information in 
the most agreeable way. familiarizing 
The Companion's readers with the best 
that is known and thought in the world. 

Full illustrated announcement of The 
Companion for [Q09 will be sent to any 
address free with sample copies of the 
paper. 

The new subscriber who at once sends 
$1.75 for 1909 (adding 50 cents for ex- 
tra postage if he lives in Canada) will 
receive free all the remaining issues of 
iqoS, besides the gift of The Companion's 
Calendar for 190c), entitled "In Grand- 
mother's Garden," lithographed in 13 
colors. 

THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 



i.|._i Berkeley St. 



Boston, Mass. 




Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living - 
Qlad for Thy days of sun and of rain; 

Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, 
Grateful for laughter and grateful for pain. 

Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, 
Glad for the fulness of long summer days; 

And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, 
Lord, I give thanks for the dark, autumn ways. 

Sun, bloom and blossom, O Lord, I remember, 
The dream of the spring and its Joy I recall; 

But now in the silence and pain of November, 
Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Qiver of all ! 



tSCEXT MONTH 

Our next issue mill be our annual art and C hristmas number and any special orders for it 
should be sent in soon. We are forced to disappoint friends each month, as We are usually 
entirely sold out before the middle of the month. In the January number mill appear a fine 
article by Frederick T)ixon of London, England. 



We are grateful at this Thanksgiving time to all of our friends and patrons for helping 
to make a success of our magazine. One of the great pleasures of our mork comes thro the 
kind letters of appreciation me get from so many quarters. A II joy to you every one. 

The Editor. 



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WHERE TO GET YOUR 
LUNCH 

Winter and Christmas shoppers wil! 
be filling the stores during the coming 
month and a question with many su- 
burban and interurban dwellers is, 
where to go to lunch. This question 
will only occur to those who do not 
know the Boston Lunch. For, after 
giving it a trial, the question will no 
longer recur. The best class of busi- 
ness men, office men and all downtown 
workers have found the Boston Lunch 
to fill a long felt want, and shoppers will 
find the same thing. For cleanliness 
and home cooking it cannot be beaten 
any place. The moderate charge is 
another feature which has helped to 
popularize it, and then everything is 
readv. No waiting. Just the place for 
busy people, including shoppers. 

Everybody who knows, by wearing, 
about the goods put out by the Winona 
Mills, is delighted with them. Their 
hosiery, especially, makes friends for the 
establishment, and once worn no other 
will fill their place. 

The entire output of the Winona Mills, 
hosiery and underwear, both heavy and 
light, for men, women and children, are 
of the very best materials, steam shrunk- 
en, and dyed with the finest and most 
expensive dyes. 

The local agent for this splendid line 
of goods is Mr. Andrew L. Krusen, and 
he will gladly call and show samples. 

The Midwestern takes especial pleas- 
ure in introducing Mr. Krusen to its 
friends and patrons. 



WINONA 



SEAMLESS 
HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR 

For Men, Women and Children 
Best Made for Wear and Comfort 

The only ladies' seamless 

hose made with narrowed 
ankle. 



Underwear 

Perfectly Made — Steam Shrunken 

One trial will convince you 
no goods equal our make. 



Xmas Orders taken now 

Call or address 

Andrew L. Krusen 

City Salesman 
6o0 Youngerman Building 



On Thanksgiving Day 

You Can Get 

A Splendid Turkey Dinner 



at 



The Chicago Grill 

Everything FirsUclass 218 Fourth Street 



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Tapestry Painting 

200 Beautiful Tapestry Paintings by 
the Most Eminent Artists in the World 
to Select From 

We can show you effects produced with Tapestry Paintings, 
properly selected and placed, NEVER before shown. 

SCHOOL 

We have the finest Tapestry Painting School on earth. It 
is open every business day in the year, not only for the tuition 
of beginners, but we give Teachers of Art in general an oppor- 
tunity to obtain all the new and up-to-date ideas, making 
their task much easier at the Institutions where they are the 
Art Instructors, in fact, we teach the teachers. We are not 
in the Tapestry business, strictly speaking, for a business, 
just because it is a paying business, but because it is a busi- 
ness we thoroughly understand in all its details. There is no 
better Tapestry Artist in the World than Mr. Maturo, which 
we can prove absolutely by the many letters of commendation 
received from our many delighted patrons. 

LESSONS 

We give SIX three- hour LESSONS for $5. 
We Rent to patrons beautifully painted Tapestries for 
Studies. 

TAPESTRY MATERIAL 

We manufacture and keep the largest and best line of 
Tapestry Material in the World, at prices most reasonable. 

DRAWINGS 

We make Drawings and enlarge them to any size desired, 
either on Paper or Tapestry material ready for painting, from 
any subject given us, guaranteeing absolute perfection. 

CATALOGUE 

We have an illustrated catalog containing over 500 Tapestry Painting subjects, gotten up 
at a cost of thousands of dollars, and sold for $ I a copy. We, however, have arranged to send 
the readers of this paper (if name of paper is sent), a catalogue for postage (ten cents) or FREE 
on receipt of order for TWO yards or more of Tapestry Material. We also carry a full line of 
Paints, Brushes, Pallets, Rest-sticks, Pantographs, and Photographic Studies; any size; black and 
white, or hand colored. 

We extend to all artists visiting our city at any time, who are interested in this line of work, 
a CORDIAL invitation to make our Studio their headquarters, where they may receive their 
mail and do their corresponding. 

IDaturo-Ulbeeler Co* 

36 W. 27th St., between 6th Ave. and Broadway, New York City, N.Y. 
Phone 2508 Madison Square 

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Des Moines People 



in their rush to get down town to do their Xmas 
Shopping, should appreciate more than 
ever the splendid street car service 
which The Des Moines City Rail- 
way Co. gives to them on every 
line in the city. 

The good service, and clean, warm cars, should h 
a splendid Xmas Qift to our patrons. 






Des Moines City 



* Railway Co. 



DES MOINES 
IOWA 




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1 





Through 

Des Moines 
Chicago 

Leaves Union Station, Des Moines, 9:25 p. m. daily. Arrives 
Union Station, Chicago, 8:30 a. m., via the 

CHICAGO, 

MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL 

RAILWAY 

Returning, Through Sleeper leaves Union Station, Chicago, on 
The Overland Limited at 6:05 p. m., daily. 



F. A. MILLER, Gen'l Passenger Agent, Chicago. 
S. H. VAUGHAN, Div. Passenger Agt., 410 Walnut. Des Moines. 1 



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2 



Djnp«psH-Billlousn«s$-Rhium>llsm ( 
Conitlpitlon-Liier iofl Kidneys. 
A Jug full on trial -Willi 
convince you. I 

I A full descriptive Booklet | 
mailed on application. 

gallon '"I lUll P ress X "for • 1 1 
We pay 50c for the Jug I 
I when returned. Address 

COLFAX BOTTLING WORKS 

Colfax, Iowa 



St. Paul & 
Des Moines Railroad 
Company 
DES MOINES SHOR T LINE 

Daily thru service between Des 
Moines, Mason City, St. Paul, 
Minneapolis, and the Northwest. 



W. R STERETT 

Gen. Passenger Agent 
Des Moines, Iowa 



H.W.WARREN 

Cits Ticket Agent 
Des Moines, Iowa 



Meadow Gold 
Butter 



CLEANEST-BEST-PUREST 

Manufactured by 

Beatrice Creamery Co. 

DES MOINES, IOWA 



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Old Tavern 



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The New Botlled 

BEER 

Made by 

THE DES MOINES 
{BREWING COMPANY 

will be for sale by all dealers about 
THE FIFTEENTH "DECEMBER. 
Just try it, and we are sure you 
will order a Xmas Case for your 
family. Remember— it's Made in 
Des Moines. 



DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK WHAT A GRAND GIFT 

A FIS HING OUTFIT wou LD BE FOR X MAS ? 

THE FINEST LINE THAT HAS EVER BEEN 
SEEN IN THE CITY NOW ON SALE AT THE 

W. P. HENRY DRUG STORE 



EIGHTH 



AND 



WALNUT 



STREETS 



ALSO XMAS PERFUMES CANDIES CIGARS 

PRESCRIPTIONS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION 



ETC. 



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3 



A 

Christmas 
for 
Your 

Business- 
Why Not 



Let us tell you why 
we have 4000 B. P. in 
Motors on our 
lines, and why we 
put on another 
250 H. P. last week. 



Think it over. 
We are glad to 
furnish estimates 
at any time. 



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Present 



LET US PROVE IT 



Something that will put it in shape 
to earn more money for >ou. 

That is what the installation of Elec- 
trical Power Service would mean. 

Think of its 
Advantages ! 

Cleanliness — Simplicity — A Saving of 
Floor Space. The danger of fire elim- 
inated. No wasted power to pay for. 

Don't you think you are doing your 
business an injustice? 

You expect it to earn a great deal of 
money for you. But you are not giving 
it the advantage of the MuST ECONOM- 
ICAL POWER POSSIBLE. 



Des Moines Electric Company 



Fifth and Mulberry 



Mutual 1326-M 



Iowa 596 

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4 




OPTICAL 
STORE 




JEWELRY 
STORE 






Our store contains the brightest new goods of the season 

If you want satisfaction in selection of gifts full of quality 
and merit, economy in price, our stock will till your needs 

DIAMONDS. WATCHES, FINE GOLD JEWELRY 

CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, NOVELTIES, CUT GLASS 

HAND PAINTED CHINA— new designs 
UMBRELLAS, PURSES, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC. 

A beautiful assortment of pleasing gifts desirable and 
appropriate for every one. :: We are ready to s^rve you 

407 Locust St., Des Moines, Savery Hotel :: Mutual 1805 

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CHRISTMAS ISCOMINGAND 

HERE ARE THEQIFTS 

You'll agree with us when we say "what you want is here." 
Such a choice of Christmas Gifts as we present has never been 
offered before. We have been buying and preparing for months 
—selecting this great stocks of things useful, beautiful and 
appropriate for Men and Boys. 

Just a Few Suggestions 



HOUSECOATS, $5 to $12.50 
BATH ROBES, $3.50 to $17.50 
FANCY VESTS, $2.00 to $6.50 
FANCY SUSPENDERS, $0.50 to $2.00 
SILK NECKWEAR, $0.50 to $150 
HANDKERCHIEFS, $0.25 to $1.00 
FUR GLOVES, $2.50 to $12.50 
DRESS GLOVES, $1.00 to $2.00 
SUIT CASES, $3.00 to $30.00 



TRAVELING BAGS, $2.50 to $25.00 
SEAL SKIN CAPS, $4.00 to $10.00 
UMBRELLAS, $1.00 to $10.00 
COLLAR BAGS, $1.00 to $2.00 
SCARF PINS, $0.25 to $2.50 
SWEATERS, $2.00 to $5.00 
SILK HOSIERY, $1.00 to $2.50 
MUFFLERS, $0.75 to $3.00 



Frankel Clothing Company 

"The Good Clothes Store" 



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At U20 W. Grand Ave. is located H. 
Jung's Bakery, where can be found the 
most delicious Christmas cookies and 
fancy cakes, pepper nuts, springale 
cookies, home-made chacolate candy, 
all kinds of tarts, rolls and coffee cake. 
This well-known firm make all of the 
fancy cakes and rolls used at the Golf 
and Country Club. A visit to them 
will be well worth while. Both phones. 



Photographs, with or without 
frames, seem especially appropriate at 
Christmas-time. Frames come in ev- 
ery conceivable design. Those in 
leather and silver are now most popu- 
lar. 

* * * 

Sheet music for the girl who plays — 
some of the new songs or a bound vol- 
ume of "old favorites" — will delighj all 
members of the household for many a 
day. And, if your purse allows, a mu- 
sic cabinet will be joyfully received. 



Two books by Des Moines authors 
are among the holiday offerings, "The 
Lady of the Decoration," by Ella Ham- 
ilton Durley, and "The Trail of the 
Go-Hawks," by Emelie Blackmore 
Stapp. As neither of these books have 
reached our table, we cannot give re 
views of them. They will undoubtedly 
have a good holida]' sale. 



Httmmx |MzHt 

JEWELER - Established 1881 

Pise Watch and Jewelry Repairing 

OPTICIAN Complete Line of Optics 

4 [q W. Locust St. - DES MOINES 

Next to Gas Office 



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fin Open Letter to 
Every Good 
Housewife :: 




<//*J3EU&Cq 






Dear Madam: 

If a reputable merch- 
ant should offer to you 
an article superior to any 
on the market and at a 
price, for the quality, less 
than any other, 

WOULD YOU BUY IT? 

Now we offer you the 
Bell one pound sanitary 
package of Roasted Coffee 
at 20c per lb. One pound 
will make thirty cups of 
coffee and it will be fine 
flavored, smooth drinking 
coffee, which in your cup 
with cream and sugar 
will only cost you one 
cent a cup. Ask your 
grocer for it, try it, and 
be convinced and take 
no other as a substitute. 

J. H. BELL & CO. 

Chicago 



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7 



The Gas Reflexolier 



The 


Brightest 


The 


Strongest 




and 


The 


Cheapest 


Light 


n Existence 


No 


Matches 


Needed 




Made in 2 and 4 


Light 


With Reflex Lamps 


and 


Holophane Shades 


Either Phone 


205 



DES MOINES GAS COMPANY 




A Case of 

SCHLITZ 
BEER 

should be a XMAS GIFT to 
your family Ihey all would enjoy— 
for i is The Cleanest, Best and Purest 
Beer. It is not common green Beer— 
the kind which makes you bilious, and yet it costs no more. 

ORDER A CASE TODAY! 

JOHN WEBER, JR 




416 LOCUST 



DISTRIBUTOR 



Also Distributor for 

GREEN RIVER WHISKEY 

"The Whiskey without a Headache" 



DES MOINES 

l Iowa 3 



Phones - 



Mutual 128 



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DIRECTORY OF OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN DES MOINES 



None hut F^egis'e^J Osteopaths will appear in this ^Department 



DRS. CALDWELL & RIDGE WAY 301-304 Flynn Blk. Both Phones 


Office Hours 9-11 and 1.2 


DR. P. B. GROW Cor. S. W. Ninth and Park Ave. 


Both Phones 


DRS. J. A. and JENNIE A. STILL 729 East Locust St. 


Beth Phones 


DR. EVA SNIDER WALKER 1112 Eleventh St. 


Both Phones 




INTERIOR OF THE HAMILTON ART GALLERY 

For pictures of all sorts, exquisite bric-a-brac and for T_J .J. A t C* 11 

picture framing, done in an artistic manner, oisit the ilQfTlUlOTljH ft KjQttCTlJ 

202 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa 



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* * DIRECTORY OF THE FOUR 

The most charming and attractive place in town is the 400 block on Walnut Street. This block 
has been transformed into fairy land, through the enterprise of the business men of its stores and 
offices. Strangers coming to town waste no time investigating, and it is safe to say the biggest 
Christmas trade for one block in the city will be done there. Real Christmas trees adorn the 






EXCLUSIVE TRUNK AND 

LEATHER GOODS 
STORE... 

Des Moines Trunk Factory 

403 Walnut Street 
BEAUTIFUL XMAS GIFTS CAN BE FOUND HERE 



The Finest Line of LEATHER GOODS in the city 
can be seen at 

Engleen=Eade Drug Co. 

406 Walnut Street 

Imparted Auto Bags, Traveling Cases, Bill 
Books and Purses of all kinds. 



THE MOST ENTERTAINING SPOT 
IN DES MOINES is the — 



LYRIC THEATER 

421 Walnut St. 

In the Xmas Tree Block, where High-Class Vaude- 
ville and Clear, Instructive Moving Pictures 
are continuously going on. 



The Family Shoe Store 

417 Walnut Street 

ONE PLACE 

where you do get 

VALUE RECEIVED 

In every pair of Shoes you buy 



Capital City Studio 

417 Walnut 



MAKERS OF 
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS 



A MERRY CHRISTMAS 
TO OUR PATRONS 



McCRAY 
BULLETIN SYSTEM 

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING 
BUSINESS SIGNS 413-415 Walnut St. 



DENTISTRY 



The care and cure of vour teeth is the title of a 
book written by DR. C. H. HARMON mailed 
free to any address. It is worth its weight in golil 
to all tooth sufferers. If iD need of Dental Work 
of any kind write for it today Address 

The HARMON BROS. Dental Parlors 

416-418 Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa 



tf]| IF THE MEN WOULD NOTICE the crowds of 
TJJ women hovering around our window, in 
which is shown the most glorious line of Alligator, 
Walrus, Seal and all kinds of Ladies Leather Purses 
you would know just what your wife or sweetheart 
wanted for Xmas. Come and see them. We also 
have a Fine Line of Candies, etc. 

Reed liurlbut, Drugs 

Cor. 5th and Walnut 




Des Moines' 

IDEAL STORE for beautiful, 
appropriate and lasting 
Xmas Gifts. 

S. DAVIDSON & BROS. 
412-414 Walnut St. 

Iowa's 

LARGEST FURNITURE 
and CARPET STORE.... 



OLF, 



419 WALNUT- 



Des Moines' 

LARGEST EXCLUSIVE CLOAK - SUIT 
MILLINERY - STORE 



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HUNDRED BLOCK « Booster Club * & 

sidewalks, while greenery is used lavishly to decorate doorways, windows, etc. Many colored 
electric lights from bulbs hidden in the greenery make a fairy land of it after night. The enter- 
prise of this block is to be most heartily commended and is truly along the boosting line. A reg- 
ular organization has been effected in this block, of whom the officers are: President, F. N. 
Simmons; Vice President, J. H. Phillips; Secretary, Milton D. Goldman; Treasurer, C. T. Cole. 



A Special Xmas Dinner 

at 

KIRKWOOD CAFE 

Cor. Fourth and Walnut Sti. 

Everything Delicious and Clean, a Most 
Delightful Place to Eat 

Kirkwood Hotel Co. 



Valley National Bank 

Corner Walnut and Fourth Streets 

Your deposit with us will be protected by an ef- 
ficient and careful management and a 
Capital, Surplus and Profits $400,000.00 
i% interest paid on savings accounts in the 
Valley Savings Bank 

We will welcome your business however large 
or small. 



Superb Showing of 


HOLIDAY 


GIFTS 


FOR 




MEN and 


BOYS 


AT 




Wilners, 413-415 Walnut St. 



Claude W. Davis 

Manufacturing Jeweler and Electro Plater 

Replating Silverware a specialty. Also gold 

nickel and copper plating, etc.. eto. 

Artistic Designing. Hand Hammered Copper 

Goods a Specialty. 

Iowa 4142 Mutual 391 

413 Walnut St. Des Moines, Iowa 



Nothing more acceptable for Xmas than 
a characteristic 

PORTRAIT OF YOURSELF 

I am making that kind. 

WOODS STUDIO 

413-415 Walnut 



The Baltimore Dairy Lunch 

418 Walnut Street 

Under Management of 

Miss Jessica O. Young 

is surely a delightful place to eat. Everything 

you get there is appetizing because they are 

FRESH CLEAN PDRE 

Chas. Yeretsky, Prop. 



Give Your Men Folks a 

BOX OF CIGARS for XMAS 

We have the Kind Men Like 

Baltimore Cigar Store 

418 Walnut St. 

Mutual Phone 1210 



MENS FASHION SHOP 

420 Walnut 

Clever Clothes 

For Men Who Know 

Xmas Haberdashery 



The Oldest and Best 
CLOTHING HOUSE 

in Des Moines 

GOLDMAN'S 

409 Walnut St. 



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11 



SEEK 


CLASSIC XMAS GIFTS 


AT 


The Quality Corner 


S. Joseph & Sons, Jewelry 


400 Walnut St. 



FISRT MORTGAGE 

FARM LOANS 



Netting the 
Investor 5 to 
6[ per cent. 



W 



E OFFER gilt-edged First 
Mortgages on Iowa, Minne- 
sota and North Dakota 
Farms netting the investor 
5 to 6 1-2 per cent. 

Our loans are carefully 
selected on conservative 
valuations. Each farm per- 
sonally inspected before loan 
is made. Can furnish loans in 
amounts from $300 upward. 
Interest and principal collect- 
ed and remitted to investor 
without expense. 

Correspondence and per- 
sonal call invited. 

G. S. GILBERTSON 

Crocker Building 

Des Moines, Iowa 



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12 




I he Midwestern 



VOLUME III 



DECEMBER, 1908 



NUMBER 4 



Table of Contents 



Senator and Mrs. Cummins at Home— Mrs. C. H/Patchin .... 16 

Hon. Marcellus Temple, Character Sketch - Charles C. ^Pugh 26 

Comet c 1908 (Morehouse) 29 

"Just You and \" — Miranda .... 37 

Reminiscences of Fort Laramie, Wyoming — Major *D. Robinson, Ret'd ... 51 

Our Library Table- Carolyn M. Ogiloie 76 



Published Monthly in Des Moines, Iowa, by the Greater Des Moines 
Publishing Company. Offices, 532-42 Good Block. 

& ENTERED JT T>ES JttOINES TOST OFFICE AS SECONT) CLASS MATTER & 



TERMS: - ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Copyright 1 908. AWRJahu^-f-d 




AM ■ 



THE BIG GIFT STORE 

Diamonds 

and Tine Jeioelrv 

Our Gift Harvest 



It is not too early to choose Christmas Gifts. Now one has 
more time and a larger variety to select from. 

Our holiday stock of gift jewelry awaits your inspection. You will wonder at its completeness, its fresh- 
ness and its variety. It bristles with suggestions of correct, giveable things— gifts to suit all purposes and all 
tastes. Diamonds, Watches, Pins, Rings, Brooches and less expensive novelties. 

Should you contemplate gift purchasing, and during the next few weeks who will not? Come in. Our 
goods and prices will satisfy you. 



Parritt Jewelry Co. 



LARGEST STORE 



LARGEST STOCK 



LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN 



/ 



You can have the finest and dain- 
tiest laces, lingerie, and fine 
lawns, Swisses, etc., 

CLEANED 
at 

The New Wardrobe 

without the slightest injury. 

Also all heavy articles, even heavi- 
iest furs, rugs, etc., thoroughly 
cleaned and made to look like new. 

ED CRAWFORD 

Proprietor 

814 Locust Street. 




WHY pay $1.50 to have 
your Watch cleaned, 
when you can get it 
CLEANED & REGULATED 
for $1.00? 



WHY pay $1.50 for a 
Main Spring in your 
watch, when you can 
get the same warranted 
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SENATOR ALBERT B. CUMMINS 
Who entered Congress from Iowa, December, 1908 




MRS. A. B. CUMMINS 



SENATOR AND MRS. A. B. CUMMINS 

AT HOME 



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cade 



R< >.M a politician's standpoint it 
would scum impossible, save in 
the future tense, to say any- 
thing new of Iowa's latest sena- 
tor-elect. For more than a ile- 

Go?. Cummins Has been in the 



limelight. Now the public sets i^reat 
store by the limelight, believing that 
it alone reveals the real man. This is a 
mistake. The limelight often lies. Its 
high lights are too high, lis shadows 
are too sharp; it burns and scars. It 



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exaggerates to the point of caricature. 
The light that really reveals a man most 
truly as he is, body, heart and brain, is 
the leaping light and shadow of his 
own hearth fire. Therefore, this is just 
a charcoal sketch, an appreciation of 
the man in the everyday relations of 
life. One never knows another, really, 
until one knows his family. You meet 't 
man, individually, and think you know 
him well. Then you meet a brother, a 
sister or a child, and you get him at a 
new angle, in a new light. 

In Gov. Cummins* Scotch-Irish an- 
cestry — a source to which this country 
owes so much — are found the mingled 
race traits of rugged strength and 
sweetness which one finds in his own 
personality. His father is still living, 
active in body and mind, and the sweet- 
faced mother who passed away several 
years ago, was a woman of rare femi- 
nine charm. If it be good luck, accord- 
ing to the old proverb, for a man to 
look like his mother, then that good 
h'ck belongs in full measure to Gov. 
Cummins, for he strongly resembles the 
mother who was the idol of her family. 
It is a family devotedly attached to each 
other, one of the large, old-fashioned 
sort, there being nine living children of 
whom Gov. Cummins is the eldest. 

On his father's side the line runs 
back to a notable ancestor, who was a 
power in his day and clan — "Red 
Comin." The family came to this 
country before the war of the revolu- 
tion, settling first in Massachusetts, 
then for a time in Virginia, and finally 
in Northwestern Pennsylvania, where 
Gov. Cummins was born, and where 
is still the old home to which the fam- 
ily look back from their homes in the 
middle west, and to which Gov. Cum- 
mins recently accompanied his father 
on a visit. As a boy, he worked with 
his father at the carpenter trade, work 
and school alternating in the healthy, 
bld-fash(ioned American way. Two 
years at college, with the interludes 
of work to earn money to go on, gave 
him the dignity of a college gradu- 
ate and laid the foundation for the 
education which has gone on ever 
since. For Gov. Cummins has the stu- 
dent habit. Keenly acquisitive of 
knowledge, with an inborn love of 
books, he long since made friends with 
good literature. This is why the li- 



brary is the feature of the home out on 
the avenue. 

His mother's family — her maiden 
name Finnekin — was pure Scotch. 
They also came to this country before 
the revolution, settling for a time in 
North Carolina, and later in Pennsyl- 
vania. People of note in their day 
and generation, evidently. His ma- 
ternal great grandfather was one of the, 
signers of the Mecklenburg declara-' 
tion of independence, the human docu- 
ment which preceded by a year that of 
1776, and on which Thomas • Jeffer- 
son drew copiously when he came* to 
write his declaration. As a boy, he 
was brought up in the tenets of rigid 
Scotch Presbyterianism, that being his 
mother's creed, and his father having 
come into that church after his mar- 
riage. It was a home where all secu- 
lar books and papers were carefully 
picked up and put away on Saturday 
night, and Gov. Cummins declares 
that almost the only whipping he 
ever got as a boy was for whistling on 
Sunday. He came west to Iowa, 
working at the carpenter's trade, will- 
ing to work hard at anything except 
teaching school. That one thing he 
would not do. All this time getting 
that robust, concrete knowledge of 
life at first hand, which a man can 
get only by working with his hands. 
He lived for awhile at McGregor, la., 
and while there got an appointment 
as deputy surveyor at Fort Wayne, 
Ind., where he followed that occupa- 
tion for a time. This led into railroad 
work, he and his brother, as civil engi- 
neers, being engaged in the construct- 
ion of a railroad north of Fort Wayne. 

On the completion of this they 
went to Michigan, and it was while 
building a railroad which ran through 
the little town of Eaton Rapids, that 
Gov. Cummins met, at this place, Miss 
Ida Gallery, who two years later be- 
came his wife. Her father was one of 
the directors of the road, and the young 
engineer quickly won the liking of the 
man who, after the manner of fathers, 
thought hardly any one good enough 
for his cherished daughter. Just out of 
school, young, charming, musical, it 
was a case of strong attraction at first 
sight. 

Gov. Cummins then went to Chicago 
and studied law. Somehow he Jftissed 



SEN. AND MRS. A. B. CUMMINS AT HOME 




The Cummins Home on Grand Avenue 



the lure nf the big city, and came hack 
in towa, which he had never intended 
permanently to leave. 1 le came to Des 
Mi lines, then by no means a large city, 
but just a big, friendly town where 
nearly everybody knew nearly every- 
body else. It was this, he himself says, 
which attracted him to the city which 
now for thirty years has been his hum.'. 
Here he began winning his way as a 
lawyer, and has been tor many years 
admittedly at the head of the Iowa bar. 
His first case of note was in defense of 
the barbed wire manufacturing inter- 
ests of Iowa, against the Washhurn- 
Moen Co., in the East — a case of the 
people against monoply. In the prose- 
cution i if this case, he went to Worces- 
ter, Mass., tu take depositions. The 
notary public win. did much of the 
clerical work was an old J larvard man, 
I lawyer of the old school, cultivated 
and a great luver and collector of 
books, and possessed a valuahle know- 
ledge of how to gel them when one 

had not much money. A strong friend- 
ship sprung up between the two. The 
older man put the young lawyer from 
the West in the way of buying at auc- 
tion. I le became known to the deal 



ers and after his return in Des Moines 
did much of his buying through mar- 
ket lists, with his price limit on the 
volume desired, lie developed, as 
what collector does not, a line for first 
editions, but was not able to carry far 
a taste so expensive. It seemed to him 
desirable first of all. to have a thorough 
knowledge of contemporary history. 
His library is rich in history and bi- 
ography. There are complete files of 
the standard magazines, the North 
American Review, Harper, Scrihner 
ami others — files which it took years 
to complete, — and many hook-s of refer- 
ence. 

In fiction, Gov. Cummins yields his 
admiration to the great masters of ro- 
mance, and for modern realism he 
cares not at all. IK' prefers real his- 
tory to the attenuation of the modern 
historical novel, lie likes a storv to 
he a story pure and simple, and not a 

laborious problem in disguise. 

When it comes to recreation he con- 
fesses to a belated, hut no less en- 
thusiastic, liking for golf, anil when he 
plays he plays as hard as he works. 

Gov. Cummins first entrance into 
politics came with his election, as an 




Drawing Room in the Cummins Hor 



independent Republican, to the Iowa 
legislature. lie differed with his party 
on the prohibition issue, then a burning 
question in Iowa. The independence 
which has marked his entire political 
career characterized its initiative. Clear 
thinking, rare ability of clear and con 
vincing statement, the absolute cour- 
age of his convictions, and the ability 
to do things — these things have been 
the elements of his success. Added to 
this a strong and attractive personality 
much of that indefinable thing that we 
call magnetism, and it is easy to sec 
how Gov. Cummins has swept and 
swayed and shaped Iowa politics. No 
man in public life has ever had more 
loyal friends. No man has ever had 
more bitter and malignant enemies. 

Through it all he has stood steadily 
for the reforms in which he believed. 
His speaking campaigns have been 
spectacular. "There isn't more than 
one such fight in a man," said a poli 
tical friend of him half a dozen vears 



Pgo. Rut there have been two or three 
such fights fur him since. 

He has been tried out as no man 
ever has been in Iowa politics, and he 
goes to the United States senate, not 
on a political tidal wave, for a wave 
has its recoil, but on a deep vital cur- 
rent that sets resistlessly toward deep 
sea soundings. He goes because he 
stands for the new order of things, and 
of all the honored ones who have gone 
before him, none have been more truly 
representative of the best sentiment of 
the state. 

Gov. and Mrs. Cummins' home life in 
Des Moines has been ideal. With the 
exception of one brother in Chicago, his 
family are in Des Moines. His 
brother, J. C. Cummins, is his next 
door neighbor. His only daughter, 
married, is close by. His sisters are 
here, and every Saturday evening, 
when he is at home, he keeps up the 
family custom, never broken, of spend- 
ing the evening with his father. 









SEN. AND MRS. A. B. CUMMINS AT HOME 



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Some fifteen years ago, G )/. Cum 
mins built the handsome and comrno- 
dious house on Grand Avenue, which 
is notable for its hospitality in a city 
of hospitable homes. Beautiful 
grounds, fine trees, genuine old set- 
tlers, and generous porches, give it 
beautv of approach. You enter a main 
room which is both library and living 
room with a glimpse of a den in the 
rear. The stairway ascends directly 
from this room, and through the large 
window up "ii the first landing you gei 
a glimpse through clear glass of blue 
sky and waving trees. It is a happy 
thought of interior design, as beauti- 
ful as it is unusual. 

There are pictures and bits of Statu- 
ary reminiscent of a trip to Europe, 
which Mrs. Cummins made with her 
daughter when just out of school. 
Everywhere there arc books, and at 

intervals on the 1 k cases are busts, 

carved in oak. in full relief, of Ameri- 
can authors. Several of these are the 
work of that past grand master of 
wood carving. William Fry of Cincin- 
nati. 

Their only daughter, Catherine, lives 
next door. She is the wife of Mr. Hol- 
lis Rawson, a prominent business man 
of the city, born in I )es Moines, and a 
graduate of Harvard, .Mrs. Rawson 
has had the best of advantages of east- 
ern education, followed by post-gradu- 
ate Study and travel. The three lovely 
children who have come to this home 

are the happiness of both. Never a day 
so busy that Gov. Cummins does not 
find time to go over, before leaving 
his own house, and see the children. 
Hie whole state was touched by the 
deep sorrow that came in the recent 
death of one of the little grandchildren, 
a bo) of great beauty and promise. 

Gov. Cummins is a royal neighbor. 
Nothing pleases him more than to have 
his friends about him. The hospitality 

of the house, in its formal phase, takes 

the Form of dinners, rather than of 
large evening parties. 

It is due to Mrs. Cummins' charm 
ing personality that his administration 

has been as greal a success socially as 
politically. She has not only taken up 
the inherited duties of her position but 

created new ones. During each legis 
lative session she has given a series of 
dinners which included all members 




Photo of Mrs Cummins, taken for 
I lie Midwestern 



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Library in the Cummins Home 



and their wives. Iler Tuesday after- 
noons have been crowded by legisla- 
tive and townspeople, with occasional 
guests from an acquaintance statewide. 
She has gone through a period in Iowa 
so surcharged with politics, that her 
lightest act was always in danger oi 
being suspected of a political signifi- 
cance, which it by no means possessed. 
The story has been told, of how once, 
in the heated crisis of a Gear candidacy 
for the Senate, it occurred to Mrs. 
Cummins that it would be a pleasant 
thing to ask all those overworked and 
over worried men out to dinner. They 
all came. Mrs. Cummins was the only 



lady at the table, and Gov. Gear sat at 
her right. Politics was not mentioned. 
But the newspapers acclaimed it a po- 
litical dinner — a masterly stroke of 
good management on Mrs. Cummins' 
part. 

Mrs. Cummins is well poised, har- 
monious mentally and physically, with 
a gentle dignity which is a woman's 
best defense in social-political life. II 
her social tact never fails, it is because 
it has its source in unfailing kindness 
of heart, and perfect sincerity. She 
is a club woman of the conservative 
type, having always been a member 
and served as president of the > ' 



SEN. AND MRS. A. B. CUMMINS AT HOME 



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Moines Women's Club. As an attend- 
ant at state and national biennials she 
is thoroughly in touch with the move- 
ment. The charity that lies nearest 
her heart, and the one thing that she 
has not given up during her years as 
the Governor's wife, is the Home for 
Friendless Children. She has been 
president of the board for the last eight 
years and will be greatly missed. 

She is very much inclined to keep 
in hand only what she can do 
thoroughly; and seems in some 
charmed manner to have kept herself 
from the stress and strain of modern 
life. 

She keeps in touch with the best in 
current literature ; is fond of society, 
but finds too much of interest and 
pleasure in her own home to be depend- 
ent upon it. 

Mrs. Cummins is a brunette of me- 
dium height and graceful figure, and 
dresses always with unerring taste. 
Time has touched her lightly, and has 
brought her only the charm of matur- 
ity. On one occasion at a club enter- 
tainment which gave living pictures, 
she posed as "Madame Chrysanthe- 
mum," and it needed only the oriental 
dress to create a charming illusion. 



Mrs. Cummins has been abroad; 
knows her own country east and west. 

A woman of the middle west, she 
will worthily represent the women of 
the middle west in Washington, and 
will be equal to any social emergency. 
She takes with her from Des Moines 
the love and good will of her world of 
friends. 

Her popularity reminds one of some- 
thing that happened in the great state 
of New York. It was at Saratoga. The 
state convention had met to nominate 
a governor. Roscoe Conkling, at the 
head of his delegation, walked into 
the old town hall. Frank Hiscock 
wanted to be governor ; so did some 
one else ; so did John H. Starin, mil- 
lioniare steamboat owner. A news- 
paper woman who was looking on 
wrote to her paper, that while she 
didn't care particularly who was elect- 
ed governor — the candidates all looked 
good to her, that for governor's wife, 
she was "first, last and all the time for 
Mrs. John H. Starin!" 

This is the sort of sentiment that 
will follow the first lady in the state to 
her new home in the National Capital. 



SWEET REMEMBRANCES 

Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics Long, long be my heart with such mem- 

of Joy. ories filled ; 

Bright dreams of the past, which she Like the vase in which roses have once 

cannot destroy been distilled, 

And which come in the night-time of You ma y break - y ou m ay ruin the vase 

sorrow and care, " if you will 

To bring back the features that joy But the f cent .,? f the roses wiU han S 
used to wear- round lt st,u - 

— More. 




GOVERNOR WARREN F. GARST 



NICKNAMES OF ROYALTY 



The chief executives of state and fed- 
eral governments in America are as well 
known by their nicknames as by those of 
a more dignified character. 

However accustomed the average 
American is to this fact, he seems to be 
surprised to learn that his neighbors 
across the water indulge in similar famil- 
iarity when speaking of their rulers. A 
writer in Harper's Weekly comments 
upon this custom as follows : 

In Great Britain, and Germany especi- 
ally, are nicknames popular, and almost 
every member of the royal families, as 
well as prominent men generally, have 
them. 



His Majesty Edward VII. is frequent- 
ly referred to as "Edrex" — very obvious- 
ly derived from the royal signature, Ed- 
ward Rex. Prior to his assumption of 
the crown he was familiarly known as 
"Bertie," and by the older members of 
the royal family as "The Guvnor." 

It would be impossible to enumerate 
the nicknames bestowed upon that most 
active and interesting monarch, the Em- 
peror of Germany, inasmuch as the car- 
toonists give him a new one every day or 
so. "Gondola Willie," "Ajax," "Freder- 
ick the Greatest," and "The Captain" are 
probably the most used — and it is inter- 
esting to note that in each case the intent 



NICKNAMES OF ROYALTY 




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MRS. WARREN F. GARST Photo by Webster 



is sarcasm pure and simple. London 
Punch is responsible for "The Captain," 
it having printed a cartoon which repre- 
sented the Emperor as the captain of a 
ship watching the pilot, Bismarck, de- 
scending the gangway. 

That the Emperor of All the Russias 
is beloved by many of his subjects, popu- 
lar ideas to the contrary notwithstanding, 
is f, vi T ( . len ced by the familiar designation 
of "Nicky," which has clung to him since 
his boyhood. "The Eather," as the late 
King of Denmark was generally called, 
as well as the "Eather Francis," bv which 
designation King Francis Joseph is 
known, show affection and reverence. 
King Leopold of Belgium must content 
himself with the unflattering title of "The 
King with a Nose." 



"The Little Signor," as the King of 
Italy is termed by his subjects, recalls the 
endearing term of the battered soldiers of 
France — "The Little Corporal." 

"Her Royal Shyness" is the nickname 
bestowed by the Queen of Norway upon 
her sister, the Duchess of Fife. The 
Queen herself has always been known to 
her relations and intimate friends as 
"Harry." 

Many of the nobles of England bear 
queer nicknames, among the most odd 
and unaccountable of which is "Rlue 
Monkey." applied to the Marquis de Sov- 
eral. The King himself bestowed upon 
Lon Ruchan, the very appropriate title 
of "Pocket Adonis," and upon Lord Rib- 
blesdale that of "The Ancestor," because 
of the latter 1 ! odd stvle of dress. 




HON. MARCELLUS L. TEMPLE 



Charles C. Pugh 



TIE republican party has long 
been in power in Iowa, with 
only one democratic governor 
in many years. The strength 
of the party developed factions 
and such differences that two divisions 
came into view as standpat and pro- 
gressive, a division that many good 
men in both factions now believe has 
happily ended. 

The line of cleavage was indistinct 
at first, but rapidly reached a stage 
where in many things there was a 
difference so radical as to virtually 
make two parties in one, and strong 



men in each faction fought for the 
mastery with intermitting success. 
Hon. M. L. Temple, of Clarke county, 
was a standpatter, loyal and earnest, 
but always with such consideration, 
such goodness of heart, that he con- 
stantly desired the healing of the party 
wounds, and did much in keeping con- 
stantly in mind the basic fact that re- 
publicanism in its highest ideals coul'l 
only mean one party in Iowa, and that 
i:i the last analysis there was in fact 
but small reason for the quarrel. 

Marcellus L. Temple had his birt 
place in Wadestmvn. West Virgin 



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the date September 16, 1848, it then 
being a part of Virginia. His father 
was Nathaniel Temple, a PennsyJ- 
vanian who had removed to Virginia 
some eight years before, a man of 
strong character who left an impress 
on the affairs of his native as well as 
his adopted state. The family ancestry 
is traced directly back to England to 
a date earlier than the Norman con- 
quest, the first of the family to come 
to America being Abraham Temple, of 
Leicestershire, England, who came to 
American shores in 1635, an early set- 
tler in the Puritan colony at Salem, 
Massachusetts. The father of the sub- 
ject of this informal sketch was a 
grandson of the earlier settler Nathan- 
iel Temple, and was a revolutionary 
soldier, a 1st lieutenant in Capt. 
Waters' Independent Riflemen of New 
Jersey. 

The mother of M. L. Temple was 
Henrietta Rice, of Pennsylvania Dutch 
stock, and early settlers who traced 
back to the noted family of Long- 
worths in Maryland. Mr. Temple was 
married September 3, 1873, at Mor- 
gantown,' West Virginia, to Julia M. 
Protzman, the good wife that now 
graces his home and has so faithfully 
shared all the sorrows, and so grace- 
fully enjoyed the blessings that have 
come to them. The two sons, Wm. 
M. and Ernest C. Temple, are living 
at Osceola, Iowa, the former being a 
partner with his father in the law and 
abstract business at that place. 

Some weeks ago the writer had 
business that called him to Osceola 
and he had a pleasant half day with 
Colonel Temple, a half day that was 
rare, for it is noted among Iowa peo- 
ple that M. L. Temple has 'such a 
splendid intellect, polished by an edu- 
cation for which he worked hard and 
faithfully, as to mark him one of the 
strong men of the state. He cherishes 
his home above everything else. Next 
ti that' he holds dear the friendships 
of all those men in this great state 
with whom he has been in touch dur- 
ii'g all the years since he located in 
Osceola in October, 1873. 

Colonel Temple was presidential 
elector for the eighth district in 1892, 
was elected to the legislature in 1895, 
and served as chairman of the Code 
Revision Committee in 1896 and extra 



session of 1897, was re-elected in 1899, 
1901 and 1903, making a service of 
practically twelve years as a member 
of the House. He was Chairman of 
the Judiciary in 1900 and Ways and 
Means three succeeding sessions. He 
left a marked impression on the laws 
o; Iowa during all that service and 
was a leader in the House, by many 
considered the strongest member 
serving in some of these sessions. 

We know young members who to 
this day feel most grateful to Mr. 
Temple for his help, for his guidance 
and thoughtfulness in assisting them 
in such legislation as would give them 
recognition and insure them strength 
at home with their constituents. 

He did not strive to have his name 
attached to legislative measures, he 
did not seek to play to the galleries, 
but with a mind for analysis and with 
a fund of information that made him 
exceptional, he worked for the state, 
and his record as a legislator was clean 
and helpful, and is the one monument 
that will remain as the dearest memory 
tc his family. 

March 8, 1907, Mr. Temple was ap- 
pointed by President Roosevelt United 
States Attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict of Iowa, taking oath of office 
March 14, 1907, being confirmed by 
the United States Senate, December 
17, 1907, for a term of four years, and 
in that office he is making good. 

Mr. Temple is always a student. If 
he lives to be ninety years of age his 
heart will be young, his conception of 
the duties of an American citizen will 
b( high, and his perspective always op- 
timistic — a broad man, good tempered, 
a splendid citizen, and a loyal Iowan. 

One of the pleasantest half "clays of 
my life was the time that I was with 
him when in a modest way, replying 
to my questions, he unfolded to me the 
story of his young manhood, his strug- 
gles and his victories, and no man can 
know of those things, no man can 
know Colonel Temple intimately, with- 
out having a thorough appreciation of 
his excellent qualities. He is always 
kindly in accepting criticism. 

As a member of the legislature for 
many years he accomplished a great 
many good things for the state of 
Towa, accomplished much more than 
Ik seeks credit for, and the one trait 



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that particularly makes him a lovable 
man is the uniform courtesy and en- 
couragement that he gives to younger 
men who prove worthy of his friend- 
ship. 

He is an omnivorous reader and has 
attained a scholarship that is known 
only to those who are on most inti- 
mate terms with him. He has a good 
many years yet, in the ordinary course 
of events of active life, at least there 
are hundreds of friends in this state 
who wish for him many years of his 
continued good health and intellectual 
activity. Iowa is a state of strong 
men, and ranks high in the councils of 
the nation. It is a state of rare intelli- 
gence, of good morals — a Christian 
state that is having a large oart in the 
civilization of these first vears of the 
twentieth centurv, and in that citizen- 
ship Colonel Temple takes rank with 
the best.. 

I have known Colonel Temple for 
years, some little incidents occurring 
years ago that Tave me admiration for 
the man. Knowing- his warm-hearted- 
ness, his brilliancy of intellect, his 
splendid equipment, the writer of this 
brief appreciation has had for him the 
greatest respect. 

Colonel Temple has been active in 



politics, and has had most loyal friends 
as well as strenuous political enemies, 
as must be the lot of any man who suc- 
ceeds. But he always "plays the 
game" fair and when you come to know 
him well in his home life you are 
touched by his kindness of heart, his 
uniform courtesy and good cheer. 

In the annals of Iowa there is re- 
served for Marcellus L. Temple a place 
high up towards the first. In the 
hearts of his friends there is held a 
lender regard that shall abide with the 
years. He has a place in his commun- 
ity that is accorded him by mutual con- 
sent, and he is giving to this great gov- 
ernment his very best effort. 

The story of his early boyhood, ol 
his college days, when by the constant 
study of political economy he changed 
from a free-trade democrat to a pro- 
tective tariff republican, reads in many 
ways like a romance, yet to him it is 
all very real, and when it is put on the 
printed page it will serve as an inspir- 
ation to many a young boy to fight 
bravelv on with an eve for the future. 

M. L. Temple is best known and best 
loved in his own home circle, and that 
is the suoreme test of the real man. 
His friendship I hold as a delight and 
an honor. 



THE DYING SUMMER 

The summer time is dying by degrees. 
The Autumn moon at evening oversees 
The wav by which each dying leaf must 

fall, 
And smiles a grim approval of it all. 

The heavy frost comes down in grim 
despair 

And casts its icv fingers ev'rvwhere. 

No fleeting pang of conscience to re- 
strict. 

And nought but f r igid weather to pre- 
dict. 

— -Raymond W. MacKimmon. 



YOU WILL NOT LOVE? 

You will not love? And must the 
moon, 

Which now is on the wane, 
Fill all the night with silver light 

In vain? 

You will not love? And must the rose, 
Which blooms in Lovers' Lane, 

Send perfume rare upon the air 
In vain ? 

You will not love? And must my 
heart, 

Which palpitates in pain, 
Forever burn, forever yearn, 

In vain? 




COMET c, 1 908 (MOREHOUSE) 



OF all the objects that appear in 
the starry heavens the comet 
is probably the most attractive 
to both astronomer and lay- 
man. These objects appear 
from time to time in various parts of 
the sky ; remain for a shorter or longer 
period and then vanish from our view, 
some to return, others never again to 
visit our solar system. 

At the beginning of the present cen- 
tury, there had been observed about 
eight hundred comets ; half of this 
number had been seen before the in- 
vention of the telescope (1609) and 
must have been fairly conspicuous. ( )f 
the latter half, comparatively few have 
been bright enough to attract general 
attention, Donati's comet of October 
4, 1858, and The Great comet of 1882 
being the most noted. In August, 
1881, two conspicuous comets shone 
at the same time in the northern heav- 
ens not very far apart, an occurrence 
unprecedented. 

Since the beginning of the year 1901, 
thirty-five comets have been observed. 
Prof. Luis G. Leon, director of the 
Observatory of Mexico, in an article 
nn the present comet, makes the fol- 
lowing classification : Of the thirtv- 
five, eight are periodic, that is, they 
are a part of our solar svstem returning 
at stated times. The celebrated Enche's 
comet is one of the eight, and the first 
to he observed this year (1008). Twen- 
tv-seven have parabolic orbits, that is, 
thev never return to the sun after their 
first visit. Six of the thirty-five have 
been seen with the naked eve. Thev 
are as follows : 

1- Discovered mi the twelfth of 
April, toot, bv Sr. Viscord of Pav- 
sander, ITraguay. 

II. Dr. C. D, Perrine. of the Lick 
Observatory, California, discovered a 
comet on the first of September, 1902. 

Til. On the twenty-first of June, 
100^, Sr. Borrellv of the Observatory 
"i Marseilles discovered a bright cornel 
which remained visible most of the 
summer. 

fV. Sr. Miguel Giacobini, of the 




Photo by Webster 

DANIEL WALTER MOREHOUSE 

Observatory of Nice, picked up a comet 
on the eighth of September, 1905. 

V. Another was discovered on the 
tenth of June, 1907, bv Mr. Zaccheus 
Daniel of the Observatory of Prince- 
ton Lmiversity. This was the bright- 
est one since 1882. It was easily vis- 
ible in the morning hours in the eastern 
sky and many Des Moines people were 
privileged to see it. 

VI. On the first day of September, 
1908, while at the Yerkes Observatory 
of the University of Chicago, the wr.it.er 
picked up a comet. The discovery was 
made by means of photography, which 
is comparatively a new method. Only 
a few have been found in this way. 
The first, in 1S92, bv Prof. E E. Bar- 
nard, then at the Lick Observatory, 
the second by Chase in 1898, while 
trying to photograph November met- 
eors; the third by CoddingP'u in 1899: 
and the fourthl the present comet. 

The remarkable thing about this 
comet is not its visibility to the naked 



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THE 



MIDWESTERN 




October 15, 1908, Negative. 

eye, although this has been notable 
since October nth, and it can still be 
seen, but the wonderful and rapid 
changes which have taken place in its 
tail. 

The formation of a comet's tail has 
always been an interesting problem to 
the astronomer. It does not follow 
the head of the comet, as most people 
suppose, but always points away from 
the sun as if some great force emanat- 
ing from our day star were repelling 
the material which composes it. Thus 
the tail is made ui> (if particles ejected 
from the coma, and at the same time 
acted upon by some external force. It 
is usually a hollow, curved, horn- 
shaped cone, open at the larger end. 
Giacobini's comet of 1905 is a must re- 
markable example of this type of tail. 

With regard to just what the true 
nature of this force is the astronomers 
do not seem to agree. The majority 
seem to favor the idea that it is elcc- 



>- 1 . 



trical, and in the strange action of the 
present comet they will have an oppor- 
tunity, not heretofore presented, to 
test the soundness of the hypothesis. 
Camille Flammarion, the great French 
astronomer, in an article on the comet 
says: "1 believe never before an ex- 
ample so typical of this action has been 
presented to observers in the very act 
as we were permitted to see at the O 
servatory of Juvisy." 

There is reproduced here, a photo- 
graph of the comet taken on the night 
of October 15, 1908, by Rev. Joel H. 
Metcalf of Taunton, Mass., showing 
one of its periods of greatest activity. 
The comet is actually breaking in two. 
The two large cloud-like condensations 
aie leaving the head at a terrific rate 
of speed. The tail is spread out into a 
great sheet of ]\ght. On this night it 
was my good fortune to have it clear 
in Des Moines. After observing: it a 
f( w moments I noticed something un- 
usual about the "loathsome vagabond" 
and accordingly made an exposure of 
three hours duration; and, contrary, to 
my usual habit, I developed the plate 
that night. Thus, to mv never-dying 
delight, I discovered anion? the very 
first the greatest transformation ever 
while ssed in a comet. 

The following bulletin was received 
a few days latei from Harvard College, 
the distributing point in America for 
all astronical discoveries: 

Cambridge, Mass., Oct. ifi, 1908. 

"Rev. J, D. Metcalf announces a r< 
markable change in the tail of More- 
house's comet on October 15, 1908. con- 
firmed by photographs here. Later 
Morehouse telegraphs October 15, won- 
derful change in Morehouse's comet 
Great condensations in tail. Photo- 
graphically. Morehouse also writes that 
the comet on October 1, T908, was 
faint and without the tail which was 
seen on September .10th and October 
2d. On the latter date it was broad, 
fan-shaped on one side with three short 
tails below it. Photographs showing 
the tail were taken here, and at Taun- 
ton, Mass. On September wth and 
October 2d. but none were obtained O 
October 1st, owing to clouds. 

Many rapid and marked chanees 
have taken place in the tail of this 
comet and good vhotographs of it ' n 
various longitudes, as long as it 



I 



I 




mains visible, arc greatly to 

sired." , 

Edward C. Pickering. 

Prof. E. E. Barnard of Yerkes Ob- 
servatory writes under date of October 
16th: "This is the most extraordinary 
comet we have had to deal with from 
the photographic standpoint. I got 
splendid photographs of it last night. 
There were large masses going out 
from it and I ran it from 6 h, 20 m, p. 
m. to nearly 14 h, " m - l have had S 1 "^ 1 
success with the comet all along. On 
September 30th and October 1st there 
were wonderful transformations in the 
comet. The weather has been extra- 
ordinarily fine. On some niehts Lran 
it all night, changing plates every hour 
or so." 

The narrow parallel streaks which 
cover the picture are made by the stars 
as the telescope is moved among them 
while following the motion of the 
comet. These show plainly that the 
motion of the comet is nearly at right 
angles to the direction of the tail. 

The second reproduction gives the 
appearance of the "celestial tramp" as 
it is seen through an opera elass. It 
was taken on November II, 1908, from 
6 h. ,}0 m, p. m. to 8 h, m. In the 
original negative, the tail is shown to 
a distance which would be represented 
by over 17,000,000 miles and is com- 
posed of great waves which look like 
the waves on the surface of a storm- 
tcssed sea. Indeed the comet reminds 
one of a huge serpent wriggling along 
the Milky Way. All this detail is, un- 
fortunately lost in the reproduction. 

The third figure shows a diagram of 
the comet's positions and motions rela- 
tive to the earth. It was prepared by 
Dr. H. C. Wilson, of Carlton College, 
Northficld, Minn. "The comets's orbit, 
says Dr. Wilson, "is represented as be- 
ing in the plane of the paper while the 
plane of the earth's orbit is tilted at an 
angle of about 40 degrees, the dotted 
portion of the ellipse being back of the 
plane of the comet's path and the 
smooth position in front of it." 

"When discovered on September 1st, 
the comet was far above the earth's 



COMET c, 1908 (MOREHOUSE) 



be de- 



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November II, 1908, Positive. 

path, and more than half as far again 
from the earth as the earth is from the 
sun. It is approaching the sun and 
will continue its approach until about 
December 25th, when it will be at peri- 
helion (nearest to the sun) a short dis- 
tance inside and below the plane of the 
earth's path. Had the perihelion pass- 
age occurred in June, this comet might 
have been a wonderful object as seen 
with the naked eye. As it is, the comet 
has already been at its nearest approach 
to the earth in October. It has not 
ccme nearer than 100,000,000 miles and 
now is receding because of the earth's 
movement toward the opposite side of 
its own orbit. At perihelion, the comet 
will be almost directly behind the sun. 
After emerging from the sun's rays it 
will become visible to observers in the 
southern hemisphere and during Febru- 
ary, March and April will be almost as 
favorabllv situated for observation as 
it has been to us in the north during 
September, October and November." 

What comets are is a question even 
more interesting than what thev do and 



THE MIDWESTERN 





I IJJBIT OF COMBI r, 1908. 



very much harder to answer. From the 
vast amount of data which has been col- 
lected concerning the comet, the meteor 
and the shooting star, the astronomer 
of today is able to speak with more ex- 
perience than those of the Middle 
Ages who still believed that "from their 
horrid heads they shook pestilence and 
war." 

They are not a huge mass of gas, 
but are of the nature of a curious stone 
like the one which with manv others 
fell from the sky in Emmet County, 
Iowa, in 1879, to the terror of all who 
saw it. Comets then, must be the debris 
c> worlds and suns flying through space 
and encountered by us in our starward 
journey. 

D. W. Morehouse. 
Drake University. 



A CHRISTMAS GLEE 



By Clinton Scollard in the December 

Metropolitan Magazine. 
Come where the ice-crystals crackle 
and crinkle I 
(Over the meadows, oho!) 
Haste where the flakes of the snow 
Spangle and sprinkle the fair peri- 
winkle, 
Whirl where the piping winds blow! 
(Merrily, love, let us go!) 

Out upon folly! be jolly! be jolly! 
(Over the meadows, oho!) 
See where they wave to and fro, 



I '.right boughs of holly to flout melan 
choly 
Beckoning, beckoning! O! 
(Cheerily, love, let us go!) 



Ian- 



This spray (how green it is!) be for 
sweet Charity! 
(Over the meadows, oho!) 
This for Faith's passionate glow! 
This for Hope's clarity, and (for hilar 
ity) 
Tendrils of blithe mistletoe! 
(Heart o' my heart, let us go!) 










an open 

l>v m mi' 



I o me Christmas invi lives 
secret, understood by few — or 
—ami unutterable except in Christian 
Science, Christ was nol born of the 
flesh, t Ihrisl is the truth and life born 
'" ' ""' boi ii hi" Spirit and not of mat 
ter. Jesus, the I ialilean prophet, was 



"'" ill the Viri 



M a i y's spiritual 



t.nil creates man perfect and eternal 
in I lis imam'. Hence man is the im 
age, idea or likeness nf perfection — an 

ideal which eannut fall from its inliei 
em unity with divine Love, from its 
spotless purity and original perfectio 



" 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. L. DRAKELY ROOD Photo by Webster 



Observed by material sense, Christ- 
mas commemorates the birth of a hu- 
man, material, mortal babe — a babe 
born in a manger amidst the flocks and 
herds of a Jewish village. 

This homely origin of the babe Jesus 
falls far short of my sense of the eter- 
nal Christ, Truth, never born and nev- 
er dying. I celebrate Christmas with 
my soul, my spiritual sense, and so 
commemorate the entrance into hu- 
man understanding of the Christ con- 
ceived of Spirit, of God and not of a 
woman — as the birth of Truth, the 
dawn of divine Love breaking upon 
the gloom of matter and evil with the 
glory of infinite being. 

Human doctrines or hypotheses nr 
vague human philosophy afford little 
divine effulgence, deific presence or 
power. Christinas to me is the re- 



minder of God's great gift — His spirit- 
ual idea, man and the universe — a gift 
which SO transcends mortal, material, 
sensual giving that the merriment, mad 
ambition, rivalry and ritual of our 
common Christmas seem a human 
mockery in mimicry of the real worship 
in commemoration of Christ's coming. 

I love to observe Christmas in quiet- 
ude, humility, benevolence, charity, let- 
ting good will toward men, eloquent si- 
lence, prayer and praise express my 
conception of Truth appearing. 

The splendor of this nativity o 
Christ reveals infinite meanings and 
gives manifold blessings. Material 
gifts and pastimes tend to obliterate 
the spiritual idea in consciousness, 
leaving one alone and 
glory. 



.if 



without H 





MRS. F. P. McKAY 



Photo by Webster 



JUST YOU AND I 



Christmas is coming, is almost here! 
The gladdest and saddest day of all the 
year. That is, to us who have grown 
old enough to have memories and an- 
niversaries. Children love the day. and 
it is certainly the festival day of child- 
hood. Maybe, too, if we can accept it 
JO the spirit of children, we can enjoy 
it as they do. p.ut when one remem- 
bers the dear hands that used to till our 
stocking, long since folded away for 



ever, or the dear one for whom we 
once prepared the little gifts, whose 
joyous laughter we miss now on 
Christmas morning — all of the sun- 
shine of the day is darkened for us. 
'* * * 

But, this is a personal way of look- 
ing at it. as we are prone to look at all 
things that effect our lives. Christinas 
should really mean to you and to me a 
new bigness of heart which enables us 



38 




MRS. OLIVER LORENZ Photo by Webster 



to view the whole world with feelings 
of love and good will. It should be the 
day of all days upon which we would 
in some measure realize our nearness 
to good, the brotherhood of Christ, the 
fatherhood of God and our reflection 
of the Father's love. And not only 
should we let this love overflow in good 
gifts to those about us, but also the 
renewal of our pledge of fealty to the 

One whose birthday we celebrate. 

* * * 

The man whose heart is not stirred 
by a prompting to buy gifts for his 
dear ones at Christmas time has a care- 
less if not a hard soul. Rut there are 
people who lose their sympathy with 
Christmas joy, especially when there 
are no children in the house to keep it 
alive. 



Every woman is a child at heart and 
perhaps enjoys her husband's gifts 
more than she did her lover's. And 
what man is there who does not look 
forward to Christmas morning — al- 
though he may pretend not to care? 
* * * 

My heart reaches out at this time of 
year to all who are in prison, no matter 
what their sin has been. Reading 
Oscar Wilde's wonderful book, "De 
I'nifundis," I felt more than ever be- 
fore the horrors of the prisoner's life— 
what it must mean not to be free. I 
wish I could extend my hand to every 
prisoner in the state of Iowa on Christ- 
mas day and make them feel one thing 
— that "they arc Cod's children in spite 
of everything and that /le is Love. 
All the world beside is nothing com- 




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MRS. FRANK CAMP 



Photo by Wcbiler 



pared to the wealth of this truth. In 
it lies hope and joy and peace. 

* " * * 

And, too, for those hearts that are in 
prison— prisoners of fate seemingly — 
my sympathy goes mil at Christmas 
time. Separated from loved ones, all 
the conditions of life at war with the 
inner self— nobody to understand or to 
care much how fare the days and the 
nights and the long years — only one 
escape possible, and that in work- 



surely this heart does not have its share 
of God-intended joy for I lis children. 
And yet, in service for others, even this 
one may find something of peace — 
something of happiness, and learn to be 
glad when at dawn the Christmas 

chimes are ringing. 

* " * * 

Let us give our Christmas shifts in 
the spirit of love. Otherwise the giv- 
ing is valueless — both to him who gives 
and to him who receives. 



JUST YOU AM) I 



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MRS. FREDERICK J. WILL 



If from Christmas to Christmas each 
Of us could so study the life of Christ 
that one great lesson should be learned 
each year, the world would he a differ- 
ent place for us all. During the past 
year I have heen thinking over my own 
resentment against injustice — either to 
myself or others. Far hack in my an- 
cestry were men who took the' field 
against those who had dealt unjustly 
toward them, and gloated over their 
victims when the enemy was trodden 
underfoot. And even of two or three 
generations since are men and women 
of whom I have always been proud be- 



ciusc they gave their fortunes, their 
time, their lives in the fight against un- 
just laws, and the effort on a part of the 
people to enslave others. 

Did Christ turn in rage at the first 
show of injustice toward Himself? Did 
he trample into the dust those who mis- 
understood Him. who mocked Him and 
spat upon Him? Did lie not rather 
v'cw them with an intense pity, horn i > f 
His love for them and well knowing 
what they must suffer for listening to 
the dictates of error? And this divine 
pity and tenderness at last won all 
hearts to Him. And today he stands 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. W. E. ANDERSON 



between us and our enemies, sheltering 
us under the shadow of His wings. 
Shall I, who have nothing to fear, 
waste my time in defending myself 
against injustice, or attempting to pun- 
ish those who set themselves against 
me? Shall I not rather sing with joy 
my gratitude to my Defender? 

— Miranda. 



MOTHER. 

A mighty maze of paths are those that 
start 
To other hearts and lives. I feel no 
sign 
Could guide me where they are, but 
well I know 
Straight is the path that leads me 
home to thine. 

—Arthur \V. Peach. 




MISS BONNIE MARSHAL L 



Hhoto by Wcbslrr 




MRS. C. E. MUSGRAVE 



Photo by Webster 



HOME 



I want to go home 

To my place in the hills ; 

To the blue of the sky, 

And the laugh of the streams ; 

To the still noontides, 

And the whispering nights; 

And the rain on the leaves. 



I want to go home 
Where the North wind sweeps 
Through the sentinel trees. 
\n«l the hare houghs creek; 
And the ice lies thick 
( )n the mountain tops 
In the ligfht of the moon. 



I want t( i g< i In ime 
To a field I have seen 
As the sun slipped down 
To his fiery bed ; 
To a deep-cut road, 
And a laureled cove ; 
And the paths that 1 know. 



1 want to gi i home 
To a house that 1 know, 
And some folks who sit 
Tn the glow of a fire. 
To some hooks on a shelf. 
And some music and things; 
And my place by the hearth. 
— Leola Snow, in the American, 




MRS. HAROLD WELLS 



Photo by Websli-r 



"She knocks bul once, doth Oppor- 
tunity ; 
Open forthwith, she seeks you nev 

ermore ! 
She importunes not, urges no man's 
door, 
Bttl hastens on till welcomed worth 
ily!" 

I So preaches one who worships mas 
tery. 
Despairing thoughl ! Shall bravery 
that l)ore 
Defeat ne'er win a victory? ne'er 
restore 



OPPORTUNITY 

William Addison Houghton 

Life's hisses, find no aid save apathy: 



\av, life and opportunity are one! 

And both are new each day, new 
hope tn lend. 
Faint hearts read failure in the set- 
tins;' sun — 
Next morn lie will triumphantly 

ascend. 
Defeat keeps school: there learn 
mistakes to mend. 
And mend and mend, while life's pood 
thread is spun. 




Photo by Webster 



TEN THINGS 



"here are ten things fur which no 
one has ever been sorry. These are: 

•Tor doing got id to all. 
For speaking evil of none. 
For hearing before judging. 
For thinking before speaking. 
For holding an angry tongue. 



For being kind to the distressed. 

For asking pardon for all wrongs. 

Fur being patient toward everybody 

For stopping the ears to a tale 
bearer. 

For disbelieving most of the evil 
pi trts. — Selectee 




MISS GRACE L1EBBE 



Pholo by Webster 



THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS 



By R. L. Towne 



Christinas decorations play an im- 
portant part in lending Christmas 
cheer to the home. They are so inex- 
pensive, and a small amount will go 
such a long way, that it is possible to 
use them more or less lavishly, either 
in country or town. 

In the country it is often possible to 
obtain an abundance of ground pine 
and Princess pine. The latter can be 
pulled iip i„ long strings, which may 
be easily festooned over the windows 



and doors, or around the pictures on 
the walls. 

The delicate Princess pine may be 
woven into wreaths for hanging in the 
windows, or at other points about the 
room, or it may be made into hand- 
some green balls. Not infrequently 
holly is to be found, even as far north 
as Massachusetts. 

Some people strip the laurel of its 
beautiful green leaves, which have un- 
deniable decorative possibilities, but, 



THE MIDWESTERN 



r 




MRS. PERCY COFFEE 



Photo ny Webster 



as this practice dues much to ruin the 
plant, it is by no means to be recom- 
mended. Laurel is disappearing at 
such a rapid rate already that every 
effort of the nature lover should be in 
the direction of conserving it, rather 
than in aiding in its destruction. 

When native evergreens are not 
available in the northern states, one 
quite naturally turns to those which 
are shipped from the South in great 
and increasing quantities. At a very 
small cost, one may have a box con- 
taining smilax, holly, needle pines, 
magnolias, palm leaves, and gray moss 
shipped direct to one's home. The 
contents of boxes so shipped are as- 
sorted so as to make them suitable for 
a particular decorative scheme, — such 



as one that makes the mantel-piece the 
focusing point, or which provides for 
the general trimming of the pictures, 
doors and windows. 

It is also possible for so small a sum 
as ten dollars to secure sufficient dec- 
orations, including most of the kinds 
mentioned, to decorate a small church 
attractively, and to good advantage. 
There is distinct advantage in buying 
greens this way, rather than at the 
stores, because 'when they are shipped 
direct there is less danger of the clus- 
ters of berries being broken off, as well 
as of the plants themselves being dam- 
aged, than when they are allowed to 
remain on exhibition for a considerable 
time. 





MISS COLEEN JOHNSON, of Mitchellville 



HER BEST GIFTS 



"Mother, your gift is best!" she said 

On childhood's Christmasday, 
Fondling her new doll's curly head 

And scampering off to play; 
Unconscious of the love and care 

Bestowed by mother's heart. 
The dreams, the hopes, the endless 
prayer, 

Which had no counterpart. 

"Mother, your gift is best!" cried she 
On girlhood's Christmasday, 

As she fingered a jewel carelessly 
In happy, girlish way; 

Life was a joyous dream as yet, 



And the rainbow-tinted skies 
Reflected their azure violet 
Into her sparkling eyes. 

"Mother, your gifts were best!" sh^ 
sighed, 
'Twas womanhood's Christmasday, 
As numerous tokens she untied 

And wearily pushed away; 
Moneyed worth and wishes polite 

Truly these gifts possessed, 
Rut love she longed for Christmas 
night, 
"Mother, your gifts were best." 

— Julia Hagberg. 




MISS JOSEPHINE WALLACE 

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wal- 
lace, who was the vocalist at a 
recent musicale given by 
her mother and 
sisters 




MISS GENEVIEVE WESTERMAN 
Pianist at the Wallace Musicale 




MISS LEONORA ULRICH 

Who was the violinist at the Wallace musicale 



REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE, 

WYOMING 



By Major D. Robinson, U. S. A., Retd. 

Continued from November 



During these years the old fort had 
undergone many changes — not only in 
its garrison, but in its buildings. It 
has been rebuilt and enlarged, the new 
quarter! extending a little towards the 
southwest on higher ground. 

It contained a variety of the quaintest 
style of quarters of any post that I had 

ever seen of its size, built in accordance 
with the taste or whim ,,|" the command- 

irg officer for the time being, and of 
course with due regard to economy. 



There was a long adobe, the lop;, the 
framed cottage and the framed two- 
story mansion. One of these had a dou- 
ble veranda, and at one time a stairway 
running from the lower to the upper 
veranda. This was named bedlam — 
the "bedlam" where Captain King's 
famed queen once reigned in all her re- 
gal glory. 

It was said that every nail in the 
building cost a dollar; this calculation 
was based on the cost of material pur- 




MRS. CHESTER ATHERTON 



chased in the east, and transportation 
across the plains in wagons, including 
hire of mechanics. 

Then came the more modern style of 
double sets of concrete quarters, cover- 
ing the front of the old ; the latter tak- 
ing a back seat, doing good service as 
kitchen, etc. 

All had verandas in front, some on 
the sides, and all were neatly fenced in 
with pretty grass plats and flower beds 
in front. These were officers quar- 



ter*. The companies occupied the orig- 
inal log buildings, besides two sets ot 
concrete a little outside of the fort 
proper, under the hill where the hospital 
stood. 

In the course of time an administra- 
tion building was added, a wing of 
which was named the "chapel," and 
was so constructed as to be utilized for 
theatricals and other entertainments. It 
should be observed that it was not al- 
ways used for divine service, but that 




REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 



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MRS. RALPH BOLTON 



was no fault of tin.' garrison. Chaplains 
were not provided at all military forts. 
Once in a while a clergyman of some 
denomination would take compassion 
"i- the benighted garrison and pay us 
a visit. Possibly to unite a happy pair 
in the bonds of matrimony, or to make 
a christian by baptism of some very 
young member of the garrison. Event- 
ful affairs, in which all were very much 
interested, and performed with as much 
ceremony and display as would be ac- 



corded a bride or infant of royalty. 

In the summer of i8tS6, we had the 
pleasure of a visit from Mr. Will 
Vischer, who delivered one of his char- 
acteristic lectures. I had charge of the 
library and assisted him in obtaining 
some data that he used in an article 
published in his paper soon after, from 
which I quote the following: 

"All in all. Fort Laramie is an im- 
portant as well as a delightful place. 
The officers, besides their cozy and 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MISS VIRGINIA MACARTHUR 



beautiful homes, their wives and chil- 
dren, horses, cows, chickens, flowers 
duties and many other blessings, have 
a club room for social enjoyments of 
the masculine kind. Everything is in 
excellent order and the cultivation of 
grass, trees and flowers makes it an ex- 
ceedingly attractive spot, a beautiful 
oasis in an almost desert. 

The officers' quarters occupy the 



northwest and southwest sides of the 
square parade, which is bordered with 
thrifty cottonwoods, and the lawns of 
the houses are a grand delight. They 
are perfectly kept and the fronts of the 
quarters are almost hidden in flowering 
vines. On the northeast and southeast 
stands the barracks. In the valley to 
the east are the post gardens, where all 
kinds of vegetables and melons are 



REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 




55 



MRS. J. W. TURNER 



raised every season. The river furnishes 
excellent fish, and in summer the pleas- 
antest kind of bathing; tents are erected 
for dressing rooms on the banks, where 
the ladies, children and gentlemen have 
• regular water resort. The little ones 
ride every evening on horseback and in 
dump carts and ambulances, dozens of 
them piling i„ t0 a big cart hauled by a 
grim and docile old mule, who allows 
the youngsters to take all sorts of lib- 
erties with him. 

About the garrison at all hours dur- 
ing the day mav be heard the sweet 
notes of cultivated voices in song 
with piano accompaniment. The band 
is a daily delight and plays sacred music 
on Sundays, and the theatre is very 
complete, having the finest scenery in 
'he west, painted by the adjutant ; offi- 
cers and ladies have an amateur dra- 
matic company, which often produces 
t admirably, popular plays. 



The soldiers and their families are 
furnished with all the comforts and 
many of the luxuries of life; the disci- 
pline of the garrison is as near perfect 
a? possible; life there is a grand and 
glorious round of rational pleasure and 
patriotic dutv, which all who know the 
gallant 7th Infantry, will wish it may 
enjoy through all the years that Uncle 
Sam may need its worthy service." 

The adjutant, the scenic painter re- 
ferred to, was Lieutenant Worden, 
Seventh U. S. Infantry, who went to 
Cuba with his regiment during the 
Spanish-American war, and returned to 
die of malignant fever. 

Ft. Worden, Washington, was named 
in memory of him. 

These were peaceful, piping times. A 
railroad running from east to west, 
eighty miles south; another some dis- 
tance less, running in the same direc- 
tion, north, and still another within 



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THE MIDWESTERN 





MISS CATHERINE QUEAL 



twenty-four miles, running from Chey- 
enne, north. 

The Indians had all pone to Pine 
Ridge Agency. White men's ranches 
had taken the place of Indian tepees on 
the Laramie and Platte rivers. The buf- 
falo had been killed off years before 
and large herds of domestic cattle are 
now grazing on what was once the 
ranges of buffalo. 

With the musket in one hand and the 
olive branch in the other, Uncle Sam's 
officers and soldiers of the past have 
brought all this about. 

Practice marches have taken the place 






ot Indian campaigns, and target-shoot- 
ing that of skirmishing, carrying out 
the maxim : "In peace prepare for war. 
How many have marched off on these 
campaigns never to return, leaving 
loving wives and children to mourn 
their loss. 

It was well towards November, the 
practice march and target practice were 
over for the season — a restful time for 
those who had participated. 

The wild flowers of the valley had 
bloomed and died ; the treeless sage- 
covered hills were as brown as nuts 
from the rays of the past summer sun. 



REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 



57 




MISS KATE MACOMBER 



The river had fallen and changed into 
a clear, sparkling stream, that could be 
crossed on stepping stones in many 
places. Deer Creek, which ran into it 
right opposite, was almost dry ; each 
could be distinctly traced in their wind- 
ing course miles away by borders of 
Cottonwood and fringes of red-ripe bull 
berry bushes, through which the varie- 
gated autumn leaves of the Virginia 
creeper, wild grape vines and clematis 
Climbed and trailed. ] ferds of fat, sleek- 



range cattle were slowly picking their 
way down the hills over the old buffalo 
trails, to drink out of the cool, clear 
stream. This was an autumn scene 
from an upper window of my quarters 
while awaiting the call for dress parade. 
Si ill waiting, ray eyes fell upon a once 
familiar spot on the opposite side of the 
river, where I had encamped 28 years 
before on the march to Utah. The col- 
umn that 1 belonged to lav over for a 
day or two to recuperate and replenish 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. CHARLES PROUTY 



stores. Little did I then think that I 
would ever return again and spend five 
years of the most pleasant period of my 
active army life. The bugle sounded, 
which turned my thoughts in another 
direction — across the parade ground to 
my company. The parade was formed, 
orders read and reports received ; the 
gun fired, the flag pulled down, the sun 
went down and parade was dismissed. 
Between that hour and tattoo you 
could find many of the officers at the 
club room, some of them a little later; 
mostly bachelors to keep the officer of 
the day company. 

It was now well into November, and 
Christmas was coming. I will venture 



to say that there is no place outside of 
an isolated military fort where the 
Christmas holidays are more appropri- 
ately and joyously observed, the prepa- 
rations for which lay within the province 
of the ladies exclusively, about twelve 
or - more, and grandly they did it. 

A large tree had to be found and 
placed in the hall at the proper time- 
large enough to hold presents for all, 
from the commanding officer down. It 
was much easier to get the tree than to 
obtain the decorations and gifts. A 
ladies' meeting was held, at which the 
first lady of the fort presided and the 
requisite funds provided. Catalogues 
had to be looked over and selections 



REMINISCKNCKS OF FORT LARAMIE 



59 




MRS. M. STRAUSS 



Photo by Webster 



made. The ladies were all artists in 
music, painting, embroidery, rag doll 
and doll dressmaking, also in dainty re- 
freshments; each and all undertook the 
parts they were most skilled in. Of 
course their husbands were interested, 
not in the way of suggestions, but to 
M»ul and obey without grumbling when 
tailed on by the lady managers, such as 
■ttendmg to the decoration of the hall 
and procuring the tree, the latter a task 
™* fell ,,, the lot of the bachelors 
who made frequent trips to the moun- 
tains to find a suitable one. 

T 'ie presents had all arrived from th«- 



east, the hall decorated with evergreens, 
flags, arms, the old battle flags of 1812, 
Mexico, and of the late war holding 
prominent places in front. 

Christmas eve had come, and with it 
the beautiful snow. The tree was 
placed in the hall, ornamented and load- 
ed with gifts — a tree of beauty, spark- 
ling like diamonds in the light of tiny 
wax tapers. 

Santa Clans had also come, seated on 
his car of state at the foot of the tree. 
The tree was so high that a ladder had 
to be provided. 

The hall was illuminated, the doors 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. WALTER McCARTY 



were opened, and the garrison had as- 
sembled. 

From an adjoining room advanced 
the carol singers, composed of boys and 
girls dressed in costume and led by one 
of the lady managers, a celebrated 
vocalist. On they came, singing and 
dancing around the tree, to the music ot 
the orchestra. Round and round they 
went again and again until the end, a 
fairy scene ever to be remembered. 

Santa Claus nimbly stepped to the 
ladder and commenced distributing the 



lent was 



gifts. The name of the recipient 
written on each, and when called they 
stepped up to the tree and received it 
with an appropriate remark from Santa 
Claus, that made the hall resound with 
laughter and merriment. 

The private received a useful book 
and the commanding officer a tin sword, 
the soldier's child a pretty doll and the 
officer's a rag doll. The last bride and 
the prospective bride, the gentle re- 
minders of the present and future, and 
so on until the tree was denuded. 




MRS. RUFUS L. CHASE 

nee Miss Alice Wingatc, a fall bride 



Photo by Welwtrr 




MRS. F. O. EVANS 






Refreshments were served all around ; 
the lights on the tree began to flicker 
and burn out. Santa Glaus bowed him- 
self out amid a shower of well wishes 
and farewells, to look after the little 
ones that were in bed and asleep dream- 
ing of him. The assembly broke up and 



rrateful for the 



departed, happy and 
favors received. 

Many of the ladies had little responsi- 
bilities tucked away in blankets at home 
that were too young to participate in 
the festivities of the evening, all of 
whom had hung up their stockings, ex- 




MISS MARIE L. CHAMBERS 

Mr. Delma Heide, the Paris correipondent o( the Musical Courier, recently paid the following tribute to 
Mary Lewis Chambers, now o( Des Moines: 

"It is with genuine regret that I chronicle the (act of the departure from Paris of the charming American singer 
and reader. Mary Lewis Chambers. It can be sincerely said that in the American colony of Paris where she so often 
•nd so uniquely entertained with her voice, both in song and story during the past two seasons, she will be greatly missed. 
Miss Chambers has been in Europe for two years assiduously studying along the lines of her chosen profession 
and enjoying tlie inspiring influences ol the great centers of European artistic life Before coming abroad she had studied 
with some of the greatest teachers of singing in Chicago, Cincinnati and New York, and graduated also from the noted 
•wolumbia College of Otatory in Chicago, making a special study of the voice as used in fervent speech. During the 
past season she has given interpretive readings of the masterpieces of English literature here and stories and characteriza- 
tions in the southern and western dialects ol the United States that have been extremely popular. But singing is Miss 
Wrambers vocation. Her voice is a pure soprano of wide compass and incomparable sweetness, highly cultivated in 
the classic school. She has also a most attractive stage presence, appearing with a simple and easy grace which charms 
•nd commands her audience. For two seasons her work as concert singer and entertainer, as teacher in private studios 
and as director of music in several colleges in her home land has won fine recognition." 

" ■ w «h pleasure The Midwestern notes the return of Miss Chambers to Des Moines, lhal she has studios at 
it* K. r. Block for the teaching of singing and expression, and that she will make engagements for concert or for 
programs of song and story. 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. JEFFERSON H. POLK 



pecting Santa Claus to come down the 
chimneys during the night and fill them 
in accordance with the little notes on 
the hearth. The fond mothers after re- 
turning from the hall, take a peep up 
the chimneys, look into the stockings 
and see that everything is in proper or- 
der for the expected visitor. Besides all 
this there were little trees hidden away 
in closets and out houses that had to be 
brought in and placed in the parlor, dec- 
orated and prepared at odd times during 
the week, all ready to be lit up in the 



morning, covered with more toys and 
dolls than the little ones had ever seen 
before. 

By daylight they were up and skirm- 
ishing around looking into their stock- 
ings, which were found to be crammed 
full, and then the racket began. No 
more sleep or rest for anyone in the 
house after that discovery. They had 
been asleep and dreaming of Santa 
Claus while others were enjoying them- 
selves at the hall, and it was their turn 



REMINISCENCES OF FORT LARAMIE 




65 



MRS. ZOE HAMMOND COLES 



The parlors were forbidden ground 
Until after breakfast, then more sur- 
prises and more fun. 

By and by you would see them run- 
ning from house to house with Christ- 
mas cards, cards of congratulation and 
presents. Happy children ! I will leave 
them to their toys, dolls and joys. 

A Christmas feeling prevailed over 
everyone and everything, indoors and 



out. All military duties were suspended 
except guard. Officers met, smiled and 
congratulated each other; then repaired 
to the office of the commanding officer 
to congratulate him. 

Companies had big bills of fare on 
that day, each vieing with the other to 
excel ; hunting parties had beon sent 
out and returned with antelope and deer. 
Turkeys and all that goes to make a 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




MRS. L. DAVIDSON 



Christmas feast were also abundantly 
supplied. This was not all ; after tatoo a 
grand ball was given by the companies 
at the hop room and every one at the 
fort invited, including all of the pretty 
ranch girls and their friends on the 
P'atte and Laramie Rivers. It was quite 
a grand affair, and conducted with more 
order and decorum than is sometimes 
seen at more select parties. Companies 
had entertainments of this kind month- 
ly, but the grand affairs were reserved 
for holidays. Officers had their weekly 
hops and more elaborate affairs given in 
honor of coming and departing visitors. 
Indoor concerts and theatricals in 



winter made life at the fort about as 
pleasant as could be desired. 

This was a memorable Christmas, be- 
cause it was the last of the kind at the 
old fort, but this was not known at that 
time, nor for many months afterwards, 
when the order came for its abandon- 
ment in the autumn of 1889. 

Its days of usefulness as a military 
center ceased. I had been absent on 
leave and returned in time to see the 
headquarters of my old regiment and all 
the companies leave, except my own 
and Captain Burnett's. I, being the 
senior officer fell into command of the 
fort in its last days. During that time 



RKMINISCKNCES OF FORT LARAMIE 




67 



MISS EDNA THOMPSON 



the quartermaster of the 9th Cavalry 
came from fort Robinson, on business 
Connected with the abandonment. He 
was the bearer of a message from the 
wife of an officer belonging to the same 
regiment. Her request was that I should 
send her a chip or small block cut out 
or a log of the quarters she was born in. 
Me described the building so minutely 
'hat no mistake could be made. 1 hap- 
pened to be occupying a part of it and 
assisted m cutting out the wisbed-for 
memento. 



It was here that I received an order 
to go where I pleased and await retire- 
ment, at my own request ; after forty 
years service, consequently I did not 
witness the final abandonment. Of all 
places an abandoned military fort is the 
most desolate to behold, particularly 
to those who have seen it in its palmy 
days. 

The fort was finally tinned over to 
the Interior Departmenl and converted 
into an Indian School. 




MISS RUTH BOWEN 



A COMPANY THAT STANDS THE TEST 



During all the troubles of the var- 
ious creamery and dairy concerns, the 
Iowa Dairy Company have gone about 
their work untroubled, serving their 
thousands of customers as usual, with 
cream and milk of guaranteed purity 
and cleanliness. Indeed the long-time 
customers of this well-established firm 
never even question the reliability of 
the supply sent out by them. A good 
name is really to be prized above rubies 
and this applies to the business firm, 
as well as to an individual. The proc- 



ess of pasteurization employed by the 
Iowa Dairy Company is well known in 
this community and well liked and ap- 
preciated. It would take something 
more than newspaper talk to shake the 
faith of the people in their chosen firm. 
The Iowa Dairy Company leads all 
others in its line and their milk anJ 
cream are without a superior any- 
where. If in doubt about your milk 
supply call up the Iowa Dairy Com- 
pany and give them a trial. 



■ 




MRS. WARD CASE 



HELPING BOTH WAYS 



During the holiday shopping season 
the mother of the family finds it con- 
venient to have the luncheon eaten out 
of the house, so that she may have the 
best pari of the day for uninterrupted 
shopping down town. To pu1 up 
lunches is really more of an effort than 

to have the men folks come home. So 

some cither way is desired and this wax- 
is readily discovered in the delightful 
Boston Lunch, convenient for both 
East and West Side shoppers and busi- 
ness men. The menu of the Boston 



Lunch includes almost every delicious 
thing that one could have for luncheon, 
from the plain sandwich to the apple 
dumpling or mince pie. The coffee 
cannot he surpassed in quality and is 
always hot. with ^oocl cream. The men 
of the family, if not already acquainted 
with tin- merits of the Boston Lunch, 
should do so at once, if for no other 
reason than to give the women a chance 
to buy their Christmas gifts. Always 
Open, night and day. West Sixth Ave. 
ami F.ast Fifth street. 




MRS. J. D. EDMUNDSON 



Pholo by Webster 




IN MEMORY 



MRS. EDMUNDSON 



In the words of an old song, "None 
knew her but to love her, none named 
her but to praise." There are few hu- 
man beings so constituted that they 
win all hearts by their gentleness, their 
sweetness and their loving kindness. 
Such a one was Laura Edmundson, 
well loved by all who knew her, and 
mourned as are only those so loved. 
Although a resident of Des Moines but 
a few years Mrs. Edmundson had made 
a host of warm friends. II cr big heart 
of sympathy to the unfortunate, led her 
to do much charitable work among de- 
serving institutions. 

In the church, in social circles and 
in her family, she will be missed as a 



beautiful and tender spirit, whose place 
none can fill. 1 ler loveliness once seen 
and felt, made an impression never for- 
gotten. The old song "Thou Arc Like 
a Flower" might have been written for 
her. Her beauty was more than physi- 
cal — it was of the spirit, illuminating 
the sweet face and grrmg -grace to the 
slender form. The lovely home, where 
she ruled as a queen, and where she 
was wont so often to welcome her 
friends is lonely now, and the places 
which knew her well will know her no 
more forever. She has passed through 
the door which will one day open to 
each of us, and on the other side awaits 
the re-union. 





IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK HOWARD 






A hundred poems we may never read the deepest and tenderest feeling in hu- 

again — a hundred songs we may never man hearts. All divine possibilities, 

hear sung again without tears! for memories of joy that we must have 

these beautiful things were his — be known in other states of existence, new 

taught us to know and to love them, conceptions of happiness — new concep- 

and he sang them with his soul in the tions of goodness and truth and nobil- 

music — music that seemed to lead to ity, all sprang to life under the magic 

the gates of paradise. 1 1 is voice stirred of his singing. And his greatest life 



work lay in this inspiration which he 
gave to others. His accomplishment in 
the short space of years (hiring which 
he was with us was no small one. And 
his work is not done. All of the influ- 
ences for good which he originated will 
reach outward and upward for years — 
yes, for generations to come. 

When about to give up his private 
classes and take the position offered at 
Drake Mr. Howard said to me that he 
dreaded the responsibility of being in 
the position of guide and counselor to 
SO many young minds. Soon after en- 
tering upon the work he exclaimed one 
dav: "Oh, they are such an inspiration 
to me; I love them — and I love my 
work among them more than words 
can tell !" It was this human love and 
sympathy for "his children" as he was 
wont to call them, that gave him the 
entrance to their hearts and enabled 
him to do the greatest individual work 
ever accomplished at Drake. 

Tn his work he was splendidly capa- 
ble, because he was a man and all that 
the word stands for, as well as a musi- 
cian. Of high ideals extreme culture of 



mind and heart, highly educated in art 
and literature, with a fine dignity of 
person and a native charm of manner 
accorded to few, Frederick Howard 
was a man whose friendship was an 
honor. And to him the friendship of 
the poor and lowly was as dear as the 
honors of kings and princes. No ap- 
peal to his kindness was ever made in 
vain. He gave with a royal hand of his 
time, his genius, and his money to 
those whom he could so benefit, and 
many a brilliant career was due to him. 
His friends included all who knew him 
personally and they cannot be num- 
bered. His work at Drake met with 
merited recognition from the founder 
of the school in the building and nam- 
ing of Howard Hall. And after these 
years of faithful effort, with friends all 
about him. alone in the silence of the 
night — he left us. Only the high, se- 
rene face, the smiling eyes closed — the 
glorious voice forever stilled — that was 
all. He was gone — without one good 
bye, and only the silence and the sep- 
aration are for us. We know that it is 
well with him. And knowing this we 
school our hearts to patience. 





MRS. HARRY E. PRAY and Children, 
LINDA and MARTHA 

GOOD NEWS 



Every well dressed woman pays es- 
pecial attention to her shoes, and in 
addition to an imperative necessity that 
they should present a good appearance, 
is the very desirable quality of comfort- 
able fit. Of all the shoes made espe- 
cially for women in the United States, 
the best fitting as well as the best 
looking- ones are made right here in 
[owa, in the town of Fort Dodge, by 
the Green-Wheeler Shoe Co. They 



make women's shoes only. They use 
the best material. The wearing quality 
of their shoes is of the highest grade 
and as for the looks of them, — well, 
look at the feet of all the well dressed 
women you know. If THE MID- 
WESTERN has a woman reader who 
is not familiar with the merits of the 
Green-Wheeler shoes, we bring to her 
good news in this issue for which we 
are sure of her gratitude. 





WILLIAMS & LEWIS 



HUMAN HAIR 



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OUR LIBRARY TABLE 

By Carolyn M. Ogilvie 



I am taking especial pleasure this 
month in pointing to our readers a few 
of what seem to me the most desirable 
books for Christmas gifts. There are 
so many it is difficult to choose, but in 
response to many letters I am endeav- 
oring to give especial mention to the 
ones I am sure our readers would like. 
All of the houses mentioned are reli- 
able and their books can be depended 
upon. I hope our readers will surely 
see the gift books mentioned in these 
columns and if you pick a book of a 
certain company that you like, ask to 
see more from the same house. The 
little classified list will also be useful 
and could be clipped and carried in the 
purse when going to make purchases. 
I thank you, dear friends, for the praise 
already accorded this department and 
will be grateful for suggestions at any 

time. 

* * * 

ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL GIFT 
BOOKS. 

Among the many illustrated volumes 
fit for a princess, a few of the most 
beautiful ones are here named. The 
prices vary from 50 cents to $2.50. 

The Fleming if. Revell Company of- 
fer a little volume containing a story 




by Ralph Connor that will meet with 
favor in all quarters. The story is 
called "The Angel and the Star," and is 
a story of The Nativity, charmingly 

told. 

* * * 

Little, Brown & Co. made no mistake 
in putting out a finely illustrated edi- 
tion of Louisa M. Alcott's "Little 
Women." Just as delightful to young 

and old as it was when first written. 

* * * 

"The Princess and Curdie" by Geo. 
MacDonald, a story for boys and girls, 
and "My Lady of the Fog" by Ralph 
Henry Barbour, are from the Lippin- 
cotts and each in its way exquisite; 
the one for children, the other for 
grown-ups. 

The Frederick A. Stokes Company 
have never brought out anything that 
is such a delight to the eye as is their 
Goethe Calendar, bound in cloth and 
illustrated in colors and gold. The se- 
lections of poetry and prose are fine 
and the book is representative of the 
taste of this popular house. 



* * 
>00k from the 



Another book from the Stokes house 
which every boy and girl in the land 
would enjoy is a volume by E. Boyd 
Smith. "Santa Claus and 
1 lim." It is illustrated by 

and in colors. 

* * * 

"Home Again With Me" and 
Orphant Annie Book," both by 
and both from the Bobbs-Merrill Com- 
pany, are perhaps among the most per- 
fect' things of their kind one will see 
anywhere, and already have had a big 
sale. No Christmas buyer should fail 

to see them. 

* * * 

"In Peanut Land" from the R 



All About 
the author 



The 
Riley, 



OUR LIBRARY TABLK 



77 



•Ynno Company, and by Eva Dean is 

such a dear and funny book, that the 
littlest and the biggest children will 
enjoy it equally. Even the babies will 

love it. 

* * * 

The Baker & Taylor Co. have done a 
good thing to put "The Chimes" by 
Dickens into such an attractive volume. 
No Christmas should pass without giv- 
ing to the public some of these wonder- 
ful stories by the master story teller 
of modern ages. The volume is well 

printed and illustrated. 

# * * 

The Scribner's give us two charming 
volumes of Edith Wharton's, "A Mo- 
tor-Flight Thro' France" and "Italian 
Backgrounds." -Mrs. Wharton is a 
g 1 observer and her scenic descrip- 
tions are fine examples of word paint- 
ing. Each volume is profusely illus- 
trated by Peixotto. 



CLASSIFIED LIST 

When in doubt, let your Christmas 
gift be a book. You are particularly 
safe in the decision if the recipient is 
to be a child ; for in these days of many 
books and handsome bindings there are 
few forms of holiday remembrances 
which will give more genuine pleas- 
ure, if carefully chosen. Rut do not 
imagine that you can step into a book- 
shop and select a book at random. If 
ymi want your gift really to be appreci- 
ated, choose it with care. 

There is a wealth of holiday books 
this season, particularly in the line of 
juveniles. We have made up a list, 
which is so varied in its character that 
it ought to help the readers of THE 
MIDWESTERN in making a selec- 
tion, and may possibly aid them in sim- 
plifying the task of choosing their 
Christmas gifts. 

* * * 

Books for Boys. 

" I he Boy Forty-niners." McClure 
Co., $1.50. 

"War Children." Dodd, Mead & Co., 
$I.<j0. 

" I'he Frontier Boys." Chatterton 

reck ( 11., 60 cents. 

The Galleon Treasure." Tims. Y. 
( rowel] Co., 75 cents. 

"Bob Knight's Diary With the Cir- 
E P. Dutton 81 Co., $1.50. 




LOUISA M. ALCOTT 

"The Student Cavaliers." P. F. Fen- 
no & Co., $1.00 

"Uncle Sam's Business," Harper 

Bros., $1.25. 

* * * 

Books for Girls. 

"Sidney at College." Little, lirown 
& Co., $1.50. 

"Marjorie's Busy Day." Dodd, 
Mead & Co., $1.25. " 

"A Little Girl in ( )ld Salem." Dodd, 
Mead & Co., $1.50. 

"A Little Heroine of Illinois." Lath- 
nip, Lee & Shepard Co., $1.25. 

"Little Women." Little, Brown & 

Co., Boston, $1.00. 

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THE 
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E.DWINJ HOl'STON 



The Californians, by Gertrude Ath- 
erton (published by the MacMillan Co., 
at $1.50), is a most interesting delinea- 
tion of character and customs of the 
early Californians. The natural, easy 
tone of the story keeps the interest 
alive from cover to cover. The char- 
acter of Magdalena Yorba, the only 
child of one of the Spanish grandees 
who decided to join the Californians, is 
well drawn. Raised in the narrow con- 
fines of a conventional life and home 
where customs, not love, ruled, the in- 
ner longing for a better and nobler life 
is thwarted by her parents. The strug- 
gles she undergoes show a deep study 
in human nature and prove her capable 
of the greatest sacrifices for those 
whom she loves. Her striving to over- 
come her weaknesses is beautifully 
brought out by the skillful pen of Ger- 
trude Atherton. The hero, Trennahan, 
whose better life is much interwoven 
with that of Magdalena Yorba, proves 
himself worthy of her love at last. The 




tragic end of Don Roberto Yorba, after 
years of eccentricity and misery, makes 
a sad ending to a good story. The 
beautiful, impulsive, selfish Helena 
Belmont proves the exciting element of 
the story. 

* * * 

Microscopic is the eye of the modern 
reader, though general opinion holds 
that nowadays he who reads runs. The 
unwary author is bound to be caupht 
napping. Meredith Nicholson, who 
prides himself on his careful accuracy, 
ventures, in "The Little Brown Jug at 
Kildare," to speak of robins nesting 
above Tiinrod's grave in the cathedral 
churchyard at Columbia, S. C. Now 
comes the secretary of the Historical 
Commission of South Carolina to deny 
very vigorously that the robins could 
be there. Robins, it seems, do not pre- 
vail in the Palmetto State in nesting 
time. 1 1 e brands the author as a nature 
faker. Mr. Nicholson avers in reply 
that he knows a robin from a reed-bird, 
and that he saw 'em with his own eyes. 
Whatever the truth may be, one would 
suppose that the ordinary reader of 
"The Little Brown Jug" would be kepi 
so busy swallowing whoppers he woul 
not strain at a robin or two. 



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In China the mother-in-law's posi- 
tion in the family admits of no doubt; 
she rules her son's wife. "A short 
time ago, when in Canton, an illustra- 
tion of this was forcibly brought home 
to me," writes Frederick S. Isham, au- 
thor of "The Lady of the Mount," 
from the Far East. "A wife was found 
murdered. The husband was accused, 
and would have been convicted and 
had his head taken off, when — mosl 
obviously — his mother, the mother-in- 
law in the case, came forward. 'I did 
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on the mother-in-law. She and the son 
left the court with a look on their faces 
which seemed to say, here had D 
much ado about little." 
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James Whitcomb Riley tells of an in 
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something on how poorly paid was the 
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even a dialect word." 

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There are but four books of adult fic- 
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E. Phillips Oppenheim leads with one 



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of the most entertaining novelettes she 
has ever written, and many of her best 
short stories. 

Little, Brown & Co. have now com- 
pleted their list of fall books, and it will 
be found to embrace all divisions of lit- 
erature, from special editions of the 
favorite classics to the latest work of 
the modern novelist. 

Their illustrated travel books cover 
five countries. "Sun and Shadow in 
Spain," by {Maud Howe, author o/ 
''Roma Beata" and "Two in Italy," de 
scribes that gifted author's impression? 
and experiences during many months 
of wandering over the peninsula 
Harry C. Shelley, author of "John 
Harvard" and "Literary By Paths in 
Old England," again writes of his 
home country in a book entitled "Un- 
trodden English Ways." Not the least 
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artistic photography, and the illustra- 
tions for his new book are all from 
photographs of his own making. 

Lilian Whiting has a comprehensive 
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Mary E. Waller's "Through the Gate 
of the Netherlands" has been so stead- 
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a new edition with additional illustra- 
tions has been prepared for this fall. 

Southern California, in our own 
country, contains intensely interesting 
material for the writer, and none is 
more fitted to depict its charms than 
George Wharton James, himself a resi- 
dent of California, and author of "In 
and Out of the Old Missions," "In and 
Around the Grand Canyon," etc. His 
book "Through Ramona's Country" 
deals with the picturesque California 
of Mrs. Jackson's famous novel, and 
the incidents from which she construct- 
ed her story. 



The triumphant tour of May Rob- 
son's "Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" 
company from Chicago to the Pacific 
northwest and Southern California and 
the Rocky mountain region has so 
stimulated the demand for Anne Warn- 
er's book, on which the comedy is 
based, that an eleventh printing is nec- 
essary. The author recently received 
the following letter from an admirer of 
"Aunt Mary :" 



"I have just finished, during a spell 
of sickness, your delightful story of 
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want to tell you how much I enjoyed it. 
Rest assured that it is the best work 
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that it is of vastly more value in cre- 
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needs it. thai* all the books published 
in that time, which call vpon us to 
weep and suffer over the mistakes and 
misdeeds of those who are utterly mis- 
erable from Preface to Finis, and we 
readers not in the least responsible for 
any of their imagined misfortunes." 

* * * 

A very pleasant little book about a 
very pleasant little town is "Rothen- 
burg-on-the-Tauber," by Hermann 
Uhde-Bernage, with illustrations by M. 
Ressel. The history of Rothenburg 
through the ages is an interesting 
story, both for the part the town 
played in the really important events of 
the German Empire and for the inside 
history of the little city with the quar- 
rels, the amusements, the sieges and 
peace-making, the prosperity and ad 
versity of the burghers. There is prob- 
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ly none in Germany, so interesting by 
its picturesque preservation of old 
buildings, and of the atmosphere of 
past times as Rothenburg. In this book 
with its attractive illustrations the 
town and its people are brought to us 

in a very sympathetic way. 

* * * 

Thomas Nelson Page has proved in 
the past his delightful gift for telling a 
story for children as well as for grown 
people, and this year he has written a 
new book for younger readers called 
"Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus," 
that will appeal to every small boy and 
girl from Maine to San Francisco. 
Tommy Trot makes a wonderful trip 
to the "land of Christmas presents and 
has there some out-of-door adventures 
in the way of hunting polar bears and 
other wild and ferocious animals that 
will keep any healthy boy spell-bound 
and wide-eyed in the telling. What 
Tommy learned about the real meaning 
of Christmas and how he carried out 
his lesson is told very charmingly and 
the book itself, with its full-page illus- 
trations in color and its little drawings 
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Hollis Godfrey, in his new novel, 
"The Man Who Ended War," has writ- 
ten a story of intense power and inter- 
est. His hero, inspired by a dread pur- 
pose, destroyed many battle ships by 
the use of a new and mysterious inven- 
tion. The scenes change from Wash- 
ington to New York, London Falke- 
stone in the English channel, back to 
America, the wild and weird fascina- 
tion of the story growing with every 
chapter. An exquisite love tale is 
wrought in the maze of the story. Lit- 
tle, Brown & Co. $1.50. 
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For serious purpose and thorough 
workmanship Mrs. Humphrey Ward is 
always to be trusted ; and in "The 
Trusting of Diana Mallory" these qual- 
ities are the first that impress the read- 
er. Those of us who love "Lady 
Rose's Daughter," and give it a high 
place in our library shelves, hardly ex- 
pected anything so dramatic, so full of 
the intense passion of life, so radiant 
with the form of love, even in a new 
book. But we find in this novel some- 
thing far finer and more enchanting 
than even in the pages of the story of 
Lady Rose's Daughter. A political 
novel, with well drawn characters, in- 
deed some of the most charming men 
and women to be found in any fiction, 
the leading of Diana Mallory, radiant, 
young, lovely, like a rare flower, so ex- 
quisite that all about her seem poor — 
this is done with a supreme art known 
alone to Mrs. Ward. One's heart is 
broken, too, at the sadness of the clos- 
ing pages. One remembers that Rich- 
ardson when he was writing Clarissa 
Harlowe, which appeared in magazine 
form, was beset with hundreds of let- 
ters begging him to save the heroine. 
But he could not do so, and neither 
could Mrs. Ward. She was forced to 
the conclusion by a conscience as real 
to the novelist as the characters them- 
selves are. Diana's story is one to love, 
to laugh and to grieve over — but still 

to love. Harper Bros. $1.50. 
* * * 

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps writes with 
her usual power in her new book, 
"Though Life Us Do Part." Her hero- 
ine, as usual, marries her inferior, a 
man whose coarse brutality is the cause 
of their separation. The most beauti- 
ful thing in the book is the love and 
the fidelity of the heroine's cousin, the 



rector of the Episcopal church in the 
village. A wonderful dog, shadowed 
by a vivisector, plays an important part 
in the story. 

Sorrow and bitter discipline bring 
things to a favorable conclusion in the 
shape of a reconciliation between hus- 
band and wife. Mrs. Ward's descrip- 
tions are always a delight to the read- 
er; and the river, the ocean, the forest, 
are brought very near and made lovely 
in this book. The Houghton-Mifflin 
Co. $1.50. 

* * * 

Alice MacGowan gives us an admir- 
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mountain girl giving her heart to a 
youth of her own kind, yet filled with 
an ambition to do something toward 
bettering the life conditions of his peo- 
ple. Then work, successful and always 
earnest, gives the story strength and 
great interest. The characters are 
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Katherine Cecil Thurston writes a 
moving tale in "The Fly on the Wheel." 
It describes a clash between tempera- 
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who is full of wild and uncontrolled 
impulses, of wonderful charm and clev- 
erness, comes in contact with a sedate 
and respectable man, who is infatuated 
with her and marries her. An old 
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of the situation and saves from abso- 
lute ruin in the climax of events. This 
is a story so well written that it will 
find many readers. Dodd, Mead & Co. 

$1.50. 

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A book that is meeting with immense 
and well deserved success is Maurice 
Hewlett's "Half- Way House." The 
darling girl in his story, so charmingly 
and sympathetically drawn, would be 
enough to make anyone love the book, 
even were it not for the dramatic power 
of the story itself. Whether or not 
the author meant to raise a dozen mor- 
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any rate, he writes with superb power 
and charm in this latest of his books 
and is less prone to mannerisms than 
is usual with him. This novel, although 
several months old, will surely find 
many Christmas buyers. Charles 
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Miss Johnston preserves the roman- 
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her latest story, "Lewis Rand." Rand 
is the son of a tobacco-roller who lives 
in Albemarle county, Virginia. He is a 
vigorous, capable, ambitious, and un- 
developed boy, with a passion for 
knowledge. Jefferson becomes inter- 
ested in him, persuades his father to al- 
low him to be educated, and supplies 
him with books. The boy rapidly edu- 
cates himself, and soon takes rank as a 
lawyer of force and ability. From law 
to politics was but a step in that time 
and in his case. This was in the year 
1790. Fourteen years later Lewis Rand 
is in love with a charming and noble 
woman, a member of one of the most 
distinguished families in the neighbor- 
hood. Their estate, Fontenoy, and 
their manner of life are charmingly de- 
scribed by Miss Johnston, and her pic- 
ture may be accepted as one of the 
most gracious and beautiful studies of 
the old regime in the South in its best 



moment. That the picture is somewhat 
idealized is both probable and pardon- 
able. The Churchills were Federalists ; 
Lewis Rand is a Republican, or, as he 
would now be called, a Democrat, and 
a follower of Jefferson. Ultimately, 
and at the height of his influence, he 
falls into the hands of Aaron Burr, 
whose grandiloquent, Napoleonic 
scheme for an empire in the South- 
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promises himself deeply, but is saved 
by the forbearance of Mr. Jefferson. 
The description of the Burr trial in 
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story becomes a tragedy; the irresist- 
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different type is described, and the 
noble devotion of a woman who is loy- 
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D. F. FRADETTE 
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Mr. Fradette comes to Des Moines to take an important position with the Des Moines Electric 
Company, from Connellsville, Pa., where he held a similar position. He is a young man who has grown 
up in his chosen work, and has his education along electric lines from practical experience. He has 
met with signal success in his work and Des Moines is fortunate in securing one more young business 
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Sunset on the Marshes. 

By Beth Slater Whitson in December Metropolitan 

The reeds arc all a-quiver with the 
light _ 
From day's reel smoldering fire. The 
stagnant stream, 
So late a brooding thing with shadows 
dimmed. 
Is suddenly transformed by gleam on 
gleam 
Of broken silver shot athwart its 
breast, 
Each baby ripple holding one pale 
beam. 



One of the things that amuses Mrs. 
Wilson Woodrow most — and she has a 
very active sense of humor — is the as- 
sumption on the part of "good guess- 
ers" that she is the wife of Woodrow 
Wilson, the president of Princeton 
University, and that she has turned her 
name around as a literary pleasantry of 
an evasion of direct responsibility. Mrs. 
Woodrow's new story of New York so- 
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For a Christmas gift, it seems to me 
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ent and a constant recurring joy for 
twelve months in the year. Of the 
many I have in mind I mention a few. 
"Country Life in America," published 
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This journal is two years old, and is 
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requisition for material. Every pro- 
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there are school children can afford to 
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little offering is made into a gift book 
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seen. The splendid new publishing 

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IJ In this stock ate a number of Stein- 
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and second-hand pianos of almost 
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is hitched to her coal cart first she 
walks nearly an eighth of a mile to a 
drinking fountain, without any direc- 
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water she cares for, then of her own 
accord she goes by another street to the 
railroad depot, crosses the tracks, pass- 
es ui) t<> the side track where the coal 



cars are and backs up to the car from 
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any human being. 

When in the morning she is har- 
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cart she takes precisely the same action 
in going to the fountain and drinking, 
but then, instead of going to the rail- 
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Many people, not over-blessed with this world's goods, appear to think an India rubber 
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which causes the bottle to burst. The writer has a bottle which has always been treated 
so, now commencing its fourth season of usefulness. — G. E. Mitchell, 66 Preston Road, 
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"When hemming dress skirts or sewing on braid or other binding, use silk thread on 
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goods to pucker. 

To keep a shirt waist in place, make a band of garter webbing the size of your waist 
and finish the ends with a strong hook and eye. 

For general sewing use an embroidery needle No. 9. They are much more pointed and 
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rill Co., is their gift book, "A Hook of 
Sweethearts." The cover design, lovely 
head, is by a Des Moines artist. Will 
Grefe, who has several other full-page 
illustrations in the volume. The dec- 
orations are by Will Jenkins — wild 
roses and vines. The opening rote is 
Si uinded thus : 

"I have known many, 

1 .iked a few ; 
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Here's to you." 

Scraps i if poetry from various 
sources, apropos to the subject of 
"Sweetheart^," runs through the pages. 
The illustrations, Most beautiful, in 
colors, are by Clarence Underwood, I*. 
Graham Coates, Harrison Fisher, 

( 'hristy and I .ester Ralph. 

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Every pair contains a coupon. This is re- 
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preserved with others until taken up by a regu- 
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deem them at five cents each in cash. No hitch 
whatever. All we ask in return is the recommen- 
dation and co-operation of the local society. 
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The Margin Between Good Laundry Work 
and Just Fair Laundry Work is Great 

Good laundry work requires a plant that is equipped with perfect mach- 
inery, modern methods, skilled labor and an ever watchful eye for details. 

"Just fair" laundry work can be distinguished at a glance, as it lacks ihe 
delicacy of finish and the attention to details that characterizes good W ork. 
This "just fair" work is done by laundries that give the "a lick and a 
promise" and think details are not worth watching. 

We do "good" laundry work — 579 on either 'phone will bring one of our 
wagons to your door. 



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this Xmas 



John McNerney 

DRUG :: COMPANY 

Comer Sixth and Grand Avenues 

are showing a line of n ovelty leath- 
er goods — in Purses — Genuine 
Alligator Bags— Bill Books— all 
styles — that charm all who see 
them. We also have a f ull line of 
Candies— Perfumes — Toilet Sets, 
etc. , that make beautiful gifts for 
Xmas. COME AND SEE THEM 

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DRUG COMPANY 



Jls it is such a Problem to fynow 

just what to give the Men 

and {Roys for a 

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We suggest that you come and see our line of 

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CHRISTMAS HINTS 



What to Give Your Wife: 

Watch, 

Ring, 

Furs, 

Rugs, 

Muff, 

Jardiniere, 

Necklace, 

Portieres, 

Brooch, 

Silk skirts. 

Automobile, 

Flowers, 

Lorgnette, 

P>ric-a-brac, 

Silver purse, 

( )il paintings, 

I landkerchief. 

( k>ld chain. 

Umbrella, 

jeweled belt. 

Locket, 

Manicure set, 

Gloves, 

Cut-glass, 

Hose, 

Clock. 

Lace, 

liracelet. 

Perfume. 

Books, 

Money. 

What to Give Your Husband : 
Suspenders. 

Beautiful hair ornaments appeal to 
all women, and never was there such 
a variety to choose from. The tiari 
effect is the most popular among th: 
younger set, in these days of Grecian 
coiffures; and to the older woman, a 
narrow barrette or a pretty fancy comu 
will be very welcome. 

The small girl of the household, with 
a fondness for making delicious fudge, 
will soon be flying around with flushed 
cheeks and smeared fingers. The hap- 
py heart and the sunshine blended into 
her "sweets" are going to make them 
just the right flavor tor everybody— 
while the bit of holly and jolly note 
accompanying them will seem to add 
to their toothsomeness. 



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strictly confidential. Local and Long Distance 
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If ten nr twenty dollars are to be put 
into a gift, nothing can take the place 
uf an ostrich plume, especially w'th the 
woman who possesses a knack of trim- 
ming her own hats. No window in the 
shopping district is more attractive, if 
the number of its admirers is taken in- 
to consideration, than the one display- 
ing the gorgeous "willow" plumes. 
Wistful eyes are ever seen gazing long- 
ingly at them. 

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Stockings, be they of silk or gauzy 
lisle, always make acceptable Christ- 
mas gifts for women. Some of the 
stores are now' displaying the "hole 
proof" variety, which have become *o 
popular among the sterner sex through 
a shrewd advertiser's methods of an- 
nouncing his specialty. 

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An extra pair of suede shoes, low 
high, would be welcomed by any wo- 
man, for it seems that no two pairs i>l 
these beautiful conceptions of the hi'"' 
maker's art are quite of the same 



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CHRISTMAS GIFTS 

You can send no more acceptable present than a bouquet of 
our beautiful hot house flowers. We also have the very finest 
grade of Holly, Mistletoe, Evergreens, Garland and Xmas 
Wreaths. Violets, American Beauties, Carnations, Roses, Lilies. 
Poinsettias, Narcissus. 

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UM ILL TELL YOU that when its hands point to 8:00 o'clock A. M., the doors of its owners — jewelry store 
on same corner — are thrown open, and every one invited to come in and see the most glorious array 
of XMAS GIFTS one would care to see — all high-class dependable goods — the kind that make you friends. 
A beautiful selection of CUT GLASS, hand painted CHINA, exquisite things in SILVERWARE, and a fine line 
of all kinds of JEWELRY. One need go no farther for gifts to suit the most fastidious. 
LARGE STOCK OF WATCHES AND DIAMONDS 

"THE BIG CLOCK STORE" FRANK SCHLAMPP & CO. Cor. 6th and Locust Sts. 

Finest equipment in city for all kinds of Jewelry and Watch Repairing. Both Phones 



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Our own as well 
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THE MIDWESTERN 




THE CENTROPOL1S 

In Colfax, Iowa. Popular hotel for those seeking rest and the famous Colfax mineral 
water. Also convenient for transients 



Dame Grundy whispers "books, 
candy, and flowers" to Fi'ince Charm- 
ing everywhere. What a fieM in which 
to display his individuality 1 Yet, hov 
often he makes a botch ot it, as he 
rushes madly about the day before 
Christinas. Although what to give 
the "sweetest girl in the world" has 
been uppenno-t in rhe thoughts for 
weeks, he usually ends up by buying 



what some unscrupulous salesperson 
recommends ; but had he "sounded" 
the little lady just a least bit, he would 
soon have learned that she despised 
history, and that a holiday edition of 
her favorite poet, or an enormous 
bunch of violets would have meant 
worlds in his favor. But, — was there 
ever a man who knew how to shop at 
Christmas-time? 




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Remember! None Genuine unless so stamped. 

Xmas Orders Promptly Filled. 

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Des Moines, Iowa 



THE MIDWESTERN FOR 1909 



In this issue appears the first installment of an important series of articles, 
giving the history of Iowa during the Civil War. These papers will be written 
by L. F. Andrews, who gathers much of his material from his own memory, 
having come to the state some years previous to the war. These articles promise 
to have a wide interest, not for Iowans alone, but to readers everywhere. 

* * * 

A Home-Building Department is beginning in this issue and will be made 
a prominent feature for the next six months. This will have a great value to 
both men and women containing suggestions calculated to aid the home build- 
er, and to encourage the building and owning of one's own home. Contribu- 
tions suitable for this department will be welcomed. 

Our series of articles relative to bur Public Utilities has attracted great in- 
terest locally and in other cities and states. They show that Des Moines is es- 
pecially well cared for along these lines, and are a first class advertisement for 
the city. They will be continued during the coming year, and any questions or 
comments pertaining to the department will be received with pleasure. 

* * * 

Our Household Helps and Hints Department is meeting with approval. 
Send in your suggestions which will be helpful to some other home-maker. The 
department will be enjoyed and improved during the coming year. 

* * * 

Very soon a Free Lance Department will be opened, which will contain ar- 
ticles for which we are not responsible, on topics of live interest and calculated 
to provoke discussion. Articles should be brief and to the point. 

* * * 

We are also promised travel articles by a Des Moines traveler. These with 
our regular established features cannot fail to make The Midwestern more val- 
uable and attractive than it has ever been. 

* * * 

We wish to appeal to you, dear reader, to let us have your subscription, so 
that your name may be entered in our books. A great many persons buy the 
magazine each month, and we would fee 1 it a favor to have them for regular 
subscribers. Do not think that we are atemporary institution. We are here to 
stay. We are here to help the city and incidentally to help you. Will you not 
in turn extend us the glad hand? Begin the New Year with a subscription to 
The Midwestern. You will not regret it. 

* * * 

To those who have so royally supported the magazine for more than two 
years, we extend our deepest gratitude. May the New Year be kind to you! 

THE EDITOR. 



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Table of Contents 



A Select Party (Story) — Nathaniel Hawthorne 17 

Christian Science in England Frederick Dixon ... 26 

Turning Back the Watch (Sketch) — /. "D. Johnson 34 

Our Public Utilities 36 

Article on Skat— JXCrs. W. B. SKcLinn 40 

Our Library Table 43 

Iowa, Its Origin and Participancy in the Civil War- L. F. Andrews 49 



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HOUSEHOLD HELPS AND HINTS 

Any person who will send us a good item which we can use will be entitled to six month s subscrip- 
tion to THE MIDWESTERN, either for himself or for a friend. Send in your helpful suggestions be- 
fore the tenth of each month. Only initials of contributors will be used unless directions to the con- 
trary are given. — Editor. 

Scrapple. — Boil four pounds of fresh pork three hours. Take the meat out, season 
the water in which it was boiled and thicken it with corn meal the consistency of thick 
cream. Chop the meat rather fine and add to the mush. Cook several hours in double 
cooker, turn into deep vessel, and when cold, cut into slices and fry brown in deep fat 
of some kind. — Mrs. R. J. S., Missouri Valley, Iowa. 

Cherry-Apple Jelly. — Adding a handful of leaves from your cherry tree to your apple 
jelly while boiling, lifting them out when jelly is done, will give a delicious flavor of 
cherries. A rose geranium leaf used in same way in apple jelly gives flavor of roses — 
Mrs. S. S. M., Akron, Ohio. 

TO SERVE JUICE IN BERRY PIES. 
Do you love a juicy pie? If so, let me tell you how to have one, and not lose a drop 
of juice by running over. Tear a strip from old muslin, two inches wide. Dip it and 
wring it out of cold water. Paste this strip about the edge of the pie. It will stick to 
the crust and to the pan. Lap it over well at the end. When pie is well baked, take it 
out and before cold, tear off the muslin strip very carefully. I have tried many methods 
of preserving juice and this is the only perfectly effective one. — Mrs. C. T. J., Guthrie, 
Oklahoma. 

TO CLEAN TAN SHOES. 
After a great deal of worry with my tan shoes I found that a piece of lemon used 
freely on the surface of the leather readily removes all the dirt. After cleaning let 
them dry, when apply the usual polish for shining purposes. — Mrs. C. E. N., Fort Worth, 
Texas. 

EASILY MADE BEATEN BISCUIT. 
Make up the dough according to any good recipe. When made up, instead of beat- 
ing it or running it through a machine, run it through an ordinary food chopper about 
six times. Use the medium cutter. After this treatment the dough will be found to 
be blistered as nicely as if it had been beaten or run through a machine. The biscuit 
when cooked can not be told from those produced by any other method. — M. S. B., 
Jackson, Mich. 

RECIPE FOR NUT ROAST. 

One cupful of chopped walnuts, one cupful of bread crumbs (whole wheat bread), 
one egg, one cupful of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Mix and put in a small pan; 
cover and bake in a moderate oven one-half hour; serve with the following milk or 
cream sauce: 

Two cupfuls of milk, one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, pepper 
and salt. Boil till thick. 

This nut roast may be served hot or cold. 

Croquettes may be made of the same mixture and fried, but I prefer the roast. — A. 
L., Guthrie, Oklahoma. 

CHICKEN A LA CREME. 

Three ounces of chopped cooked chicken, three ounces of chopped cooked ham, four 
chopped canned mushrooms, seasoning of salt, pepper and cayenne, one-half teaspoonful 
of chopped parsley, one gill of whipping cream and some green salad. 

Whip up the cream stiffly, then add the chicken, ham, mushrooms, parsley, and sea- 
sonings. Mix well together, pile in the center of a dainty dish and garnish with a bor- 
der of salad. Sprinkle a little chopped parsley over the top. — Mrs. C. E. N., Columbus, 
Ohio. 

SOME HANDY KITCHEN HELPS. 

If one-half cup of cream or the same amount of butter is added to pancake hatter 
you will not need to grease the griddle. It saves time and the house is not filled With 
smoke. 

When making molasses cookies stir them up at night and leave until morning. They 
will roll much nicer and take less flour than when baked at once. 

When frying eggs, sprinkle a very little flour in the grease; it will keep them from 
spattering and they will fry a nice brown. 

If oranges are dropped into hot water and left for a few minutes, it will be less 
difficult to peel them, and the rinds can be cut in fancy shapes when they are to De 
used for decorative purposes. 

Parsley when kept in a fruit jar tightly covered will keep fresh a week or more.-- 
R. R. G. 



DESERTING THE EASTERN FARMS 



AN APPROPRIATE TEXT 

It was the custom in a minister's fam- 
ily to have each member repeat a verse 
from the Bible at the beginning of every 
meal. One day the five-year-old son had 
been naughty, and was put at a little table 
by himself by way of punishment. When 
it came time for his verse he said solemn- 
ly, "Thou hast prepared a table before 
me in the presence of mine enemies." 

A BOAST GONE WRONG 

First Man (proudly) : There was a 
time, sir, when I rode in my own car- 
riage. 

Second Man: When your mother 
pushed it, I presume. 

HOW TO SUCCEED 
There was a fellow in our town, 

And he was far from wise ; 
He tried to run a store one time 

And didn't advertise. 
No profits came his way at all, 

His store soon failed, instead, 

Then he went out and blamed the town; 

He said that it was dead. 
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A moral's here for those who think ; 
It's this : Invest in printer's ink. 



A PASSING FLAME 

There was an old Miss of Antrim, 
Who looked for the leak with a glim. 

Alack and alas! 

The cause was the gas 
We will now sing the fifty-fourth hymn 
—Ralph A. Lyon. 

DESERTING THE EASTERN FARMS 
People have speculated for years about 
the causes which led farmers and their 
children to desert their homes in the 
eastern states. Renewed interest in this 
question has been aroused by recent pub- 
lications of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. One consequence is that a 
convention has been called, to meet next 
October in the city of Syracuse, N. Y., 
for considering this subject. 

Some of the reasons ascribed for this 
abandonment of eastern farms are, that 
the low-priced and fertile lands of the 
west give better returns than the east 
yields, for the capital and labor required 
in farming; that the value of land in 
the west is rising, while in the east it 
has been shrinking for years ; that farm- 
ing in the east no longer pays expenses, 
while tax rates have increased and are 
rtill rising, so that one cannot afford to 



own farm lands under existing condi- 
tions, if he must depend on the income 
from them to cover expenses and taxes; 
that life on the farm is dreary, and lacks 
that stimulation which comes of frequent 
meeting with other people, and leads to 
mental activity and development; and 
that the long hours and severe labor 
needed to wrest a living from the fields 
exhaust body and brain, so that even if 
such stimulus were present its benefits 
would be lost. 

A considerable part of the ills men- 
tioned have been ascribed to the lack of 
good roads, and consequent loneliness 
of farm life. This view seems to be 
justified by the facts; and other ills at- 
tending farming are due to the bad con- 
dition of those roads over which most 
farm products must be hauled by animals 
at present. 

How great this evil is, may be judged 
by the fact that in all the United States, 
in the year 1904, the only year for which 
such statistics have been collected, figures 
showing the mileage and condition of our 
wagon roads indicate that only 7.1 per 
cent of that mileage was classed as im- 
proved. In the older, more densely 
peopled and wealthier Atlantic States, 
only 7.79 per cent of their mileage of 
public highways was called improved, in 
that year. At the same time, in the 
New England States and in the State 
of New York, where more abandoned 
farms may be found than in other states 
only 10.89 per cent of the road mileage 
is improved. 

Many inquiries have brought, from 
widely separated parts of the country, 
information which seems to clearly show 
that proper improvement of rural high- 
ways immediately adds from $5 to $15 
per acre to the value of adjacent farm 
lands. This is because this improve- 
ment saves time required for hauling the 
crops to market. For illustration, in 
Wisconsin the average annual saving 
through this means is equal to $78 for 
each average farm bordering on the im- 
proved roads. 

Here we have from a simple and gen- 
erally applicable means a result that may 
be measured, and its extent expressed in 
dollars and cents. However powerful 
other causes may be, in this case none 
of them appears so to be measurable. 
Perhaps no other is so powerful a fac- 
tor as bad roads have been in causing 
the desertion of our farms. — (rood 
Roads Magazine. 



EDITORIAL 



A GLORIOUS DAY 

Sunday, December 20, 1908, was one 
of the most glorious mid-winter days 
ever seen in Iowa. The sun was shin- 
ing all day long. It came up in a gold- 
en sky and set with flying banners of 
purple and crimson. The air was 
crisp and clear, with just a hint of frost 
in it. In sheltered places, birds were 
frolicking and many a red squirrel 
came out along the branches to hunt an 
acorn or a nut. Up and down the 
streets people were taking leisurely 
walks, enjoying the glory of the day, 
and many a long automobile drive was 
taken about the suburbs. Our old-time 
winters seem to have left Iowa for 
good and all. And nobody seems to 
miss them, not even the "oldest inhabi- 
tant." For who would not wish for a 
whole winter of days just like Sunday, 
December 20th? 



WHAT IS CHARITY 

The vaguest notions of this familiar 
term fill human brains. I'll venture 
that few people could really explain 
what they think charity is in reality. 
What has impressed me just recently 
is the fact of the many demands made 
upon one at this time of year, to donate 
for charity. One of the most appealing 
of these demands is the asking for 
money with which to furnish Christ- 
mas dinners to the poor. I remember 
once taking a well filled basket to a 
poor family one Christmas eve. Upon 
my return home, my father asked me 
if they seemed grateful. I replied that 
they seemed glad to get it, whereupon 
my father said, "That's it — glad to get 
it — all seem that, but gratitude is a dif- 
ferent thing." To fill one's stomach to 
bursting once or twice a year, is that 
true charity or true kindness? If the 
hunger of the body were typical of a 
corresponding soul hunger which was 
reached by the kindness of the donor of 
the physical food, then let us often give 
to the poor to eat. But it seems to me, 
that if I were of the habitual poor, I 
could only have my hunger appeased 
when I had learned how to feed myself 



by the labor of my own hand. I much 
doubt the real value of a big dinner 
once a year for those who never learn 
the habits of thrift and industry by 
which they may buy their own Christ- 
mas dinners. 



DESERVING OF PITY 

Occasionally a woman who has had 
some bitter experience with other wom- 
en is heard to say, "I just hate wom- 
en !" It does really seem that there are 
no such contemptible creatures as the 
daughters of Eve — contemptible be- 
cause capable of such little and nasty 
things toward each other. In some one 
of Mrs. Phelps-Ward's novels, a queen 
sends for the lovely young daughter of 
a priest, upon whom her lord's eye has 
sometime rested with favor. The love- 
ly child comes timidly into her pres- 
ence. With a smile the royal hand is 
extended her, draws the girl near, then 
— more like a snake than a human crea- 
ture, the queen leans forward as if to 
kiss her guest. Instead, however, she 
bites her forearm so that the blood 
spurts forth. 

Many a modern woman is just this 
wicked. 

Doubtless few women belong to 
clubs who have not witnessed things 
which impressed upon them the truth 
of the theory of total depravity, 
at least for their own sex. But even 
the smallest and meanest among them 
all is far more deserving of pity than of 
hatred or contempt. As Omar Khayyam 
says so well, "I myself am heaven and 
hell," and each soul mus stand or fall 
upon her own merits. Such treatment 
as one gives will be given back in 
triple measure. Let us pity those who 
hurt themselves by trying to injure 
others. 



THE TRUE MARRIAGE 

Ibsen's great play, "A Doll's House," 
was seen in Des Moines recently, and 
the child-wife exquisitely portrayed by 
the great actress Nazimova. The won- 
derful lesson that cohabitation alone 
does not make the true marriage was 



EDITORIAL 



duly impressed upon the audience. 
There are doubtless in real life many 
such couples as those in the play, 
where the husband regards his wife as 
merely a female instead of a woman, 
and where the woman submits to the 
man through pure ignorance, following 
time-honored custom. When the full 
realization of the truth* dawns upon 
Nora, that without true marriage she 
had lived with her husband eight years 
and had borne him three children, she 
shudderingly exclaims, "O, I could tear 
myself in pieces !" 

How does society — how does the 
church regard such situations — know- 
ing full well that there are scores of 
them? What ails the world is the fact 
that the majority of the people in it are 
brought into this mortal existence 
without the benefit of true marriage. 
The remedy lies in education and in 
living up to standards set by truth. 

THE COLONIAL HOUSE 

At the present time in this country, 
practically every executed design, be 
it country house or factory, can be 
traced back to a recognized precedent. 
This may be English half-timber, or 
Italian, or the style of some other coun- 
try, according as the tastes of the archi- 
tect or owner may incline, yet at the 
same time the designers of today are 
treating every problem which they are 
called upon to solve in a somewhat dif- 
ferent manner from that which the 
originators of the styles used. 

This is in part due to the change in 



conditions and in part to the change in 
what, for lack of a better term, may be 
called the sentiment of the time, so 
that the work done today is as different 
from its prototypes as was Renaissance 
from Roman architecture. Of course 
there are degrees in this difference, 
some men being content to copy as 
closely as they may, while others try 
to handle each problem in a way which 
shall include something better than the 
old. Therefore, when a building is 
spoken of as being in a particular style, 
it is not meant that it is in all details 
part of that style, but merely that the 
precedent belonged to it. 

Of the many styles now being used 
for country houses in America, prob- 
ably the most popular, and certainly 
the only native one, is what is known 
as "Colonial." The title in its general- 
ly accepted sense is a misnomer, for 
under this head are usually included all 
copies of, and derivations from, the 
country houses built prior to about the 
year 1840; and from the time when w« 
first began to build houses with anj 
attempt at architectural design, to that 
year, there were a considerable num- 
ber of distinctly different styles em- 
ployed, and that this is generally rec- 
ognized is apparent from the ordinary 
use of such terms as "Southern Colon- 
ial" and "Dutch Colonial." The title 
is equally false from a historical point 
of view, as it is hardly necessary to 
point out that in 1840 we had for sixty 
years ceased to be colonies. 

— Carolyn <^T. Ogilvie. 




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A WORD OF APPRECIATION 



On December Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, at a regular meet- 
ing' of the Executive Committee of the Des Moines Commercial club, the fol- 
lowing resolution was proposed by Hon. Jerry B. Sullivan and seconded by D 
F. Givens : 






RESOLVED: That the Commercial Club appreciates the splendid service the Midwestern Mag- 
azine and its publishers have rendered to the Commercial Interests of Des Moines in the publication of 
many timely articles an J the large number of Des Moines illustrations calculated to set forth the indus- 
trial, residential and educational advantages of the city, the wide circulation these have been given and 
take this ooportunity to extend to the publishers their thanks for their co-operation in the work of up- 
building the city and to wish them a well deserved and continued success. 



This resolution passed unanimously. For all of which we are most grate 
lul to our good friends, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Givens, who have given us con 
stant encouragement in our efforts to make The Magazine representative of 
our city's best interests, also to all of our friends on this executive board who 
so kindly voted for the resolution. 

We feel gratified that our efforts are appreciated, and such kind apprecia 
tion gives us incentive to do even more in the future and to do our work joy 
fully. Each month the magazine advertises Des Moines all over this eountr 
and in foreign lands as well. We have subscribers in every state in the Un 
ion. Often we send for special orders, thousands of books to some one city 
or state. And thus the good work is accomplished for Des Moines and 
Iowa, which has been the aim of al! good "boosters" for several years 
In this, our \ T ew Year's number, we hope for a continuance of the beautiful 
spirit of helpfulness shown to us by our friends and thank you all for the en 
couragement shown in many ways during our two years of existence. Help 
us to do more for Des Moines in the coming year, and in doing this you will 
help vourselves. Here's a happy and prosperous New Year to both friends 
and strangers. 

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Superb floor for dancing. Choice for receptions and the like. 

Decorations by "Lundhall" Liebbe, Nourse & Rasmussen, Architects. 



A "FISH" PARTY 

A guesting contest based on the fol- 
lowing questions relating to fishes never 
fails to prove highly entertaining-, espe- 
cially if there be among the guests any 
who have lately participated in a fishing 

tpedition : 
I. What fish is found in every band' 
J. What fish is served with meats? 
3. What fish is worn by officers 111 
e annv? 

4. What fish is a household pet? 

5. What fish forms a resting place for 

irds ? 
6. What fish accompanies the hunter" 
7. What fish represents the earth ? 
8. What fish is not on this planet' 
y. What fish is found among royalty? 

10. What fish guides the ships? 

11. What fish was once used as a mili- 
tary weapon? 

12. What fish is a man's solace? 

13- What fish is a destroyer of ships? 
M- What fish is a good sailor? 



15/^Vhat fish is a carpenter's tool? 

16. What fish is prominent in winter 
sports ? 

17. What fish is immortal? 

SOLUTION. 

1, Drum ; 2, Jelly ; 3, Sword ; 4, Cat ; 5, 
Perch ; 6, Hound ; 7, Globe ; 8, Moon ; 9, 
King; 10, Pilot; II, Pike; 12, 



Pi 



pe; 13. 

Torpedo; 14, Skipper ; 15, Saw; 16, 
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out each year und^r the direction of 
the Massachusetts State Highway Com- 
mission. The planting this year is be- 
ing done in the western part of the 
state, where no moths have as yet been 
discovered. The policy of tree plant- 
ing adopted by the commission is due 
to the belief that the trees by shading 
the roads save them greatly, besides 
making them more comfortable for 
travelers 



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proper investment could realize $250 a 
year on it, would she not be most foolish 
to not take the opportunity presented? 
And yet just such a chance is here of- 
fered. It is this: Go to Madame Stev- 
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course for $25, and in a year save $250 
by doing your own dressmaking and also 
sewing for others. Mme. Stevenson has 
no rival as a teacher of dressmaking from 
the ground up All of her pupils secure 
good places. This is an investment well 
worth while. Experience it for yourself 
and see. 



BEAUTIFUL LEGEND 

There is a legend illustrating the 
blessedness of performing our duty at 
whatever cost to our own inclination. A 
beautiful vision of our Savior had ap- 
peared to a monk, and in silent bliss he 
was gazing upon it. The hour arrived 
in which it was his duty to feed the 
poor of the convent. He lingered not 
in his cell to enjoy the vision, but left 
to perform his humble duty. When he 
returned he again saw the blessed vision, 
and heard these words: "Hadst thou 
staid, I should have left thee." 



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delivered and tKe amount your machines actually 
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are losing money. You are turning shafting that 
tahes power and gives you no return. Individual 
drive is the only drive as it cuts out usually as 
high as 25 per cent of your power which is being 
wasted. We can cite an instance here in Des 
Moires where the total load on the engine was 
95 H. P. and 30 H. P. was line loss. This 30 H. 
P. was being wasted for lO hours per day every 
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v)he boy 's picture on our cover 
is of the three year old son of 
Mr. and "Mrs. 6. •£ Mer- 
edith. $£e is £d&in %. '^Mer- 
edith, (junior. DvCay the prom- 
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shadowed in this strong and beau- 
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ture years for both the boy and 
for you, dear reader and friend. 
JJ^tfjoy for you in the year 1909. 




BENJAMIN F. CARROLL 

Iowa's Newly Elected Governor 



he Midwestern 



VOLUME 111 



JANUARY, 1909 



NUMBER 



•J 




MRS. B. F. CARROLL 

The congratulations of the women of Iowa are due to Mrs. Carroll in her position as the first lady in 

the state. Mrs. Carroll is a beautiful woman with a beautiful spirit of cheer and goodwill 

toward all whom she meets and will fill her place with credit. 



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A SELECT PARTY 

Nathaniel Hawthorne 



Man of Fancy made an entertain- 
ment at one of his castles iii the air, and 
invited a s.lcet number of distinguished 
personages to favor him with their pres- 
ence. The mansion, though less splend- 
id than many that have heen situated in 
Ott same region, was nevertheless of a 
magnificence such as is seldom witnessed 



by those acquainted only with terrestrial 
architecture. Its strong foundation and 
massive walls were quarried out of a 
ledge of heavy and sombre clouds which 
had hung- brooding over the earth, ap- 
parently as dense and ponderous as its 
own granite, throughout a whole aut- 
umnal da v. Perceivme that the general 



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effect was gloomy — so that the airy cas- 
tle looked like a feudal fortress, or a 
monastry of the Middle Ages, or a state 
prison of our own times, rather than the 
home of pleasure and repose which he in- 
tended it to be— the owner, regardless of 
expense, resolved to gild the exterior 
from top to bottom. Fortunately, there 
was just then a flood of evening sun- 
shine in the air. This being gathered 
up and poured abundantly upon the roof 
and walls, imbued them with a solemn 
cheerfulness, while the cupolas and pin- 
nacles were made to glitter with the 
purest gold, and all the hundred win- 
dows gleamed with a glad light, as if 
the edifice itself were rejoicing in its 
heart. 

And now, if the people of the lower 
world chanced to be looking upward 
out of the turmoil of their petty perplex- 
ities, they probably mistook the castle in 
the air for a heap of sunset clouds, to 
which the magic of light and shade had 
imparted the aspect of a fantastically con- 
structed mansion. To such beholders it 
was unreal, because they lacked the im- 
aginative faith. Had they been worthy 
to pass its portal, they could have recog- 
nized the truth, that dominions which the 
spirit conquers for itself among unreali- 
ties become a thousand times more real 
than the earth whereon they stamp their 
feet, saying, "This is solid and substan- 
tial ; this may be called a fact." 

At the appointed hour, the host stood 
in his great saloon to receive the com- 
pany. It was a vast and noble room, the 
vaulted ceiling of which was supported 
by double rows of gigantic pillars that 
had been hewn entire out of masses of 
variegated clouds. So brilliantly were 
they polished, and so exquisitely wrought 
by the sculptor's skill, as to resemble 
the finest specimens of emerald, por- 
phyry, opal, and chrysolite, thus produc- 
ing a delicate richness of effect which 
their immense size rendered not incom- 
patible with grandeur. To each of these 
pillars a meteor was suspended. Thou- 
stands of these ethereal lusters are contin- 
ually wandering about the firmament 
burning out to waste, yet capable of im- 
parting a useful radiance to any person 
who has the art of converting them to 
domestic purposes. As managed in the 
saloon, they are far more economical than 
ordinary lamplight. Such, however, was 
the intensity of their blaze that it had 
been found expedient to cover each 



meteor with a globe of evening mist 
thereby muffling the too potent glow and 
soothing it into a mild and comfortable 
splendor. It was like the brilliancy of a 

powerful yet chastened imagination a 

light seemed to hide whatever was un- 
worthy to be noticed and give effect to 
every beautiful and noble attribute. The 
guests, therefore, as they advanced up 
the center of the saloon, appeared to bet- 
ter advantage than ever before in their 
lives. 

The first that entered with old-fash- 
ioned punctuality, was a venerable figure 
in the costume of bygone days, with his 
white hair flowing over his shoulders and 
a reverend beard upon his breast. He 
leaned upon a staff, the tremulous stroke 
of which, as he set it carefully upon the 
floor, re-echoed through the saloon at 
every footstep. Recognizing at once this 
celebrated personage, whom it had cost 
him a great deal of trouble and research 
to discover, the host advanced nearly 
three-fourths of the distance down be- 
tween the pillars to meet and welcome 
him. 

"Venerable Sir," said the Man of 
Fancy, bending to the floor, "the honor 
of this visit would never be forgotten 
were my term of existence to be as hap- 
pily prolonged as yours." 

The old gentleman received this com- 
pliment with gracious condescension. He 
then thrust up his spectacles over his 
forehead and appeared to take a critical 
survey of the saloon. 

"Never within my recollection," ob- 
served he, "have I entered a more spac- 
ious and noble hall. But are you sure 
that it is built of solid materials and that 
the structure will be permanent?" 

"O, never fear, my venerable friend," 
replied the host. "In reference to a life- 
time like your own, it is true my castle 
may well be called a temporary edifice. 
But it will endure long enough to answer 
all the purposes for which it was erect- 
ed." 

But we forget that the reader has not 
yet made the acquaintance of the guest. 
It was no other than that universally ac- 
credited character so constantly referred 
to in all seasons of intense cold or heat; 
he that remembers the hot Sunday and 
the cold Friday; the witness of a past 
age whose negative reminiscences find 
their way into every newspaper, _ yet 
whose antiquated and dusky abode is so 
overshadowed by accumulated years and 



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crowded back by modern edifices that 
none but the Man of Fancy could have 
discovered it; it was, in short, the twin 
brother of Time, and great-grandsire of 
mankind, and hand-and-glove associate of 
all forgotten men and things— the Oldest 
Inhabitant. The host would willingly 
have drawn him into conversation, but 
succeeded only in eliciting a few remarks 
as to the oppressive atmosphere of this 
present summer evening compared with 
one which the guest had experienced 
about fourscore years ago. The old gen- 
tleman, in fact, was a good deal overcome 
by his journey among the clouds, which, 
to a frame so earth-incrusted by long 
continuance in a lower region, was un- 
avoidably more fatiguing than the young- 
er spirits. He was therefore conducted 
to an easy-chair, well cushioned and 
stuffed with vaporous softness, and left 
to take a little repose. 

The Man of Fancy now discerned an- 
other guest, who stood so quietly in the 
shadow of the pillar that he might have 
been easily overlooked. 

"My dear sir," exclaimed the host, 
grasping him warmly by the hand, "al- 
low me to greet you as the hero of the 
evening. Pray do not take it as an empty 
compliment; for, if there were not an- 
other guest in my castle, it would be en- 
tirely pervaded by your presence." 

"I thank you," answered the unpre- 
tending stranger; "but, though you hap- 
pened to overlook me, I have not just ar- 
rived. I came very early ; and, with your 
permission, shall remain after the rest of 
the company have retired." 

And who does the reader imagine was 
this unobtrusive guest? It was the fa- 
mous performer of acknowledged impos- 
sibilities — a character of superhuman ca- 
pacity and virtue, and, if his enemies are 
to be credited, of no less remarkable 
weaknesses and defects. With a gener- 
osity with which he alone sets us an ex- 
ample, we will merely glance at his no- 
bler attributes. He it is, then, who pre- 
fers the interests of others to his own 
and a humble station to an exalted one. 
Careless of fashion, custom, the opinions 
of men, and the influence of the press, he 
assimilates his life to the standards of 
ideal rectitude, and thus proves himself 
the one independent citizen of our free 
country. In point of ability, many peo- 
ple declare him to be the only mathma- 
tician capable of squaring the circle ; the 
only mechanic acquainted with perpetual 



motion ; the only scientific philosopher 
who can compel water to run up hill ; the 
only writer of the age whose genius is 
equal to the production of an epic poem ; 
and, finally, so various are his accom- 
plishments, the only professor of gym- 
nastics who has succeeded in jumping 
down his own throat. With all these 
talents, however, he is so far from being 
considered a member of good society, 
that it is the severest censure of any fash- 
ionable assemblage to affirm that this 
remarkable individual was present. Pub- 
lic orators, lecturers, and theatrical per- 
formers particularly eschew his company. 
For especial reasons, we are not at lib- 
erty to disclose his name, and shall men- 
tion only one other trait — a most singu- 
lar phenomenon in natural philosophy — 
that, when he happens to cast his eyes 
upon a looking-glass, he beholds nobody 
reflected there. 

Several other guests now made their 
appearance ; and among them, chattering 
with immense volubility, a brisk little 
gentleman of universal vogue in private 
society, and not unknown in the public 
journals under the title of Monsieur On- 
Dit. The name would seem to indicate a 
Frenchman ; but, whatever be his coun- 
try, he is thoroughly versed in all the 
languages of the day, and can express 
himself quite as much to the purpose in 
English, as in any other tongue. No 
sooner were the ceremonies of salutation 
over than this talkative little person put 
his mouth to his host's ear and whispered 
three secrets of state, an important piece 
of commercial intelligence, and a rich 
item of fashionable scandal. He then as- 
sured the Man of Fancy that he would 
not fail to circulate in the society of the 
lower world a minute description of this 
magnificent castle in the air and of the 
festivities at which he had the honor to 
be a guest. So saying, Monsieur On- 
Dit made his bow and hurried from one 
to another in the company, with all of 
whom he seemed to be acquainted and 
to posses some topic of interest or amuse- 
ment for every individual. Coining at 
last to the Oldest Inhabitant, who was 
slumbering comfortably in the easy-chair, 
he applied his mouth to that venerable 
ear. 

"What do you say?" cried the old gen- 
tleman, starting from his nap and putting 
up his hand to serve the purpose of an 
car trumpet. 



20 



THE MIDWESTERN 



Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again 
and repeated his communication. 

"Never within my memory," exclaimed 
the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting his hands in 
astonishment, "has so remarkable an in- 
cident been heard of." 

Now came in the Clerk of the Weather, 
who had been invited out of deference to 
his official station, although the host was 
well aware that his conversation was 
likely to contribute but little to the gen- 
eral enjoyment. He soon, indeed, got 
into a corner with his acquaintance of 
long ago, the Oldest Inhabitant, and be- 
gan to compare notes with him in refer- 
ence to the great storms, gales of wind, 
and other atmospherical facts that had 
occurred during a century past. It re- 
joiced the Man of Fancy that his vener- 
able and much respected guest had met 
with so congenial an associate. Entreat- 
ing them both to make themselves per- 
fectly at home, he now turned to receive 
the Wandering Jew. This personage, 
however, had latterly grown so common, 
by mingling in all sorts of society and 
appearing at the beck and call of every 
entertainer, that he could hardly be called 
a proper guest in a very exclusive circle. 
Besides, being covered with dust from 
his continual wanderings along the high- 
ways of the world, he reallv looked out 
of place in a dress party ; so that the host 
felt relieved of an incommodity when the 
restless individual in question, after a 
brief stay, took his departure on a ram- 
ble toward Oregon. 

The portal was now thronged by a 
crowd of shadowy people with whom the 
Man of Fancy had been acquainted in his 
visionary youth. He had invited them 
hither for the sake of observing how 
they would compare, whether advantag- 
eously or otherwise, with the real charac- 
ters to whom his maturer life had intro- 
duced him. They were beings of crude 
imagination, such as glide before a young 
man's eyes and pretend to be actual in- 
habitants of the earth ; the wise and witty 
with whom he would hold intercourse ; 
the generous and heroic friends whose 
devotion would be requited with his own ; 
the beautiful dream-woman who would 
become the help-mate of his human toils 
and sorrows and at once the source and 
partaker of his happiness. Alas ! it is 
not good for the full-grown man to look 
closely at these old acquaintances, but 
rather to reverence them at a distance 
through the medium of years that have 



gathered duskily between. There was 
something laughably untrue in their pom- 
pous stride and exaggerated sentiment; 
they were neither human nor tolerable 
likenesses of humanity, but fantastic 
maskers, rendering heroism and nature 
alike ridiculous by the grave absurdity of 
their pretensions to such attributes ; and 
as for the peerless dream-lady, hehold! 
there advanced up the saloon, with a 
movement like a jointed doll, a sort of 
wax figure of an angel, a creature as 
cold as moonshine, an artifice in petti- 
coats, with an intellect of pretty phrases 
and only the semblance of a heart, yet 
in all these particulars the true type of 
a young man's imaginary mistress. 
Hardly could the host's punctilious 
courtesy restrain a smile as he paid his 
respects to this unreality and met the 
sentimental glance with which the 
Dream sought to remind him of their 
former love passage. 

"No, no, fair lady," murmured he be- 
twixt sighing and smiling; "my taste is 
changed ; I have learned to love what 
Nature makes better than my own cre- 
ations in the guise of womanhood." 

"Ah, false one," shrieked the dream- 
lady, pretending to faint, but dissolving 
into thin air, out of which came the de- 
plorable murmur of her voice, "your in- 
constancy has annihilated me." 

"So be it," said the cruel Man of 
Fancy to himself ; "and a good riddance, 
too." 

Together with these shadows, and from 
the same region, there came an uninvited 
multitude of shapes which at any time 
during- his life had tormented the Man 
of Fancy in his moods of moribund mel- 
ancholy or had haunted him in the delir- 
ium of fever. The walls of his castle 
in the air were not dense enough to keep 
them out, nor would the strongest of 
earthly architecture have availed to their 
exclusion. Here were those forms of 
dim terror which had beset him at the 
entrance of life, waging warfare with 
his hopes ; here were strange uglinesses 
of earlier date, such as haunt children in 
the nightime. He was particularly start- 
led by the vision of a deformed old 
lurking in the garret of his native home 
black woman whom he had imagined 
and who, when he was an infant, had 
once come to his bedside and grinned at 
him in the crisis of scarlet-fever. This 
same black shadow, with others almost as 
hideous, now glided among the pillars of 



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the magnificent saloon, grinning recog- 
nition, until the man shuddered anew at 
the forgotten terrors of his childhood. It 
amused him however, to observe the 
black woman, with the mischievous cap- 
rice peculiar to such beings, steal up to 
the chair of the Oldest Inhabitant and 
peep into his half-dreamy mind. 

"Never within my memory," muttered 
that venerable personage, aghast, "did I 
see such a face." 

Almost immediately afterthe unrealities 
just described, arrived a number of guests 
whom incredulous readers may be in- 
clined to rank equally among creatures of 
imagination ; the most noteworthy were 
an incorruptible Patriot ; a Scholar with- 
out pedantry ; a Priest without worldly 
ambition ; and a Beautiful Woman with- 
out coquetry ; a Married Pair whose life 
had never been disturbed by incongruity 
of feeling ; a Reformer untrammeled by 
his theory ; and a Poet who felt not jeal- 
ousy toward other votaries of the lyre. 
In truth, however, the host was not one 
of the cynics who consider these patterns 
of excellence, without the fatal flaw, 
such rarities in the world ; and he had 
invited them to his select party chiefly 
out of deference to the judgment of so- 
ciety, which pronounces them almost im- 
possible to be met with. 

"In my younger days," observed the 
Oldest Inhabitant, "such characters might 
be seen at the corner of every street." 

Be that as it might, these specimens of 
perfection proved to be not half so enter- 
taining companions as people with the 
ordinary allowance of faults. 

But now appeared a stranger, whom 
the host had no sooner recognized, than 
with an abundance of courtesv unlav- 
ished on any other, he Instened down the 
whole length of the saloon in order to 
pay him emphatic honor. Yet he was a 
voung man of poor attire, with no in- 
signia of rank or acknowledged eminence, 
nor anything to distinguish him among 
the crowd except a high, white forehead, 
beneath which a pair of deep-set eyes 
were glowing with warm lieht. It was 
such a light however as never illumin- 
ates the earth save when a srrcat heart 
burns as the household fire of a grand 
intellect. And who was he? Who but 
the Master of Genius for whom our 
country is looking anxiously into the mist 
of Time, as destined to fill the exeat mis- 
sion of creating an American Literature, 
hewing it, as it were, out of the un- 



wrought granite of our intellectual quar- 
ries ? From him, whether moulded in 
the form of an epic poem or assuming a 
guise altogether new as the spirit itself 
may determine, we are to receive our first 
great original work, which shall do all 
that remains to be achieved for our glory 
among the nations. How this child of a 
mighty destiny had been discovered by 
the Man of Fancy it is of little conse- 
quence to mention. Suffice it that he 
dwells as yet unhonored among men, un- 
recognized by those who have known 
him from his cradle ; the noble counte- 
nance which should be distinguished by a 
halo diffused around it passes daily amid 
the throng of people toiling and troubl- 
ing themselves about the trifles of a 
moment, and none may pay reverence to 
the worker of immortality. Nor does it 
matter much to him, in his triumph over 
all the ages, though a generation or two 
of his own times shall do themselves the 
wrong to disregard him. 

By this time Monsieur On-Dit had 
caught up the stranger's name and des- 
tiny and was busily whispering the intel- 
ligence among the other guests.. 

"Pshaw !" said one. "There can never 
be an American Genius." 

"Pish !" cried another. "We have al- 
ready as good poets as any in the world. 
For my part I desire to see no better." 

And the Oldest Inhabitant, when it 
was proposed to introduce him to the 
Master Genius, begged to be excused, 
observing that a man who had been 
honored with the acquaintance of Dwight 
and Freneau, and Joel Barlow, might be 
allowed a little austerity of taste. 

The saloon was now fast filling up by 
the arrival of remarkable characters, 
among whom were noticed Daw Tones, 
the distinguished nautical personage, 
and a rude carelessly dressed, Harum- 
scarum sort of elderly fellow, known by 
the nickname of Old Harry. The latter, 
however, after being shown to a dress- 
ing-room, reappeared with his gray hair 
nicely combed, his clothes brushed, a 
clean dickey on his neck, and altop-etb°r 
so changed in aspect as to merit the 
more respectful appellation of Venerable 
Henry. Joel Doe and Richard Roe came 
arm in arm, accompanied by a Man of 
Straw, a fictitious indorser, and several 
persons who had no existance except :>s 
voters in closely contested elections. The 
celebrated Seatsfield who now entered, 
was at first supposed to belong to the 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



same brotherhood, until he made it ap- 
parent that he was a real man of flesh 
and blood and had his earthly domicile 
in Germany. Among the latest comers, 
as might be expected, arrived a guest 
from the far future. 

"Do you know him? Do you know 
him?" whispered Monsieur On-Dit, who 
seemed to be acquainted with every- 
body. "He is the representative of Pos- 
terity, — the man of an age to come." 

"And how came he here?" asked a 
figure who was evidently the prototype 
of the fashion-plate in a magazine, and 
might be taken to represent the vanities 
of the passing moment. "The fellow in- 
fringes upon our rights coming before 
his time." 

"But you forget where we are," an- 
swered the Man of Fancy, who over- 
heard the remark. "The lower earth, it 
is true, will be forbidden ground to him 
for many long years hence ; but a castle 
in the air is a sort of no-man's-land, 
where Posterity may make an acquaint- 
ance with us on equal terms." 

No sooner was his identity known 
than a throng of guests gathered about. 
Posterity, all expressing the most gen- 
erous interest in his welfare, and many 
boasting of the sacrifices they had made, 
or were willing to make in his behalf. 
Some, with as much secrecy as possible 
desired his judgment upon certain 
copies of verses or great manuscripts 
rolls of prose ; others accosted him with 
the familiarity of old friends, taking it 
for granted that he was perfectly cog- 
nizant of their names and characters. 
At length, finding himself thus beset, 
Posterity was quite put beside his pati- 
ence. 

"Gentlemen, my good friends," cried 
he, breaking loose from a misty poet who 
strove to hold him by the button, "I 
pray you to attend to your own business, 
and leave me to take care of mine! I 
expect to owe you nothing, unless it be 
certain national debts, and other encum- 
brances and impediments, physical and 
moral, which I shall find it troublesome 
enough to remove from my path. As 
to your verses, pray read them to your 
contemporaries. Your names are as 
strange to me as your faces ; and even 
were it otherwise, — let me whisper you 
a secret, — the cold, icy memory which 
one generation may retain of another is 
but a poor recompense to barter life for. 
Yet, if your heart is set upon being 



known to me, the surest, the only method 
is, to live truly and wisely for your own 
age, whereby, if the native force be in 
you, you may likewise live for posterity." 

"It is nonsence," murmured the Old- 
est Inhabitant, who, as a man of the 
past, felt jealous that all notice should 
be withdrawn from himself to be lavished 
on the future, "sheer nonsense, to waste 
so much thought on what only is to be." 

To divert the minds of his guests, 
who were considerably abashed by this 
little incident, the Man of Fancy led 
them through several apartments of the 
Castle, recieving their complements on 
the taste and varied magnificance that 
were displayed in each. One of these 
rooms was filled with moonlight, which 
did not enter through the window, but 
was the aggregate of all the moonlight 
that is scattered around the earth on a 
summer night while no eyes are awake 
to enjoy its beauty. Airy sprites had 
gathered it up, wherever they found it 
gleaming on the broad bosom of a lake, 
or silvering the meanders of a stream, 
or glimmering among the wind-stirred 
boughs of a wood, and had garnered it 
in this one spacious hall. Along the walls, 
illuminated by the mild intensity of the 
moonshine, stood a multitude of ideal 
statues, the original conception of the 
great works of ancient or modern art, 
which the sculptors did but imperfectly 
suceed in putting into marble ; for it is 
not to be supposed that the pure idea of 
an immortal creation ceases to exist; 
it is only necessary to know where they 
are deposited to obtain possession of 
them. In the alcoves of another vast 
apartment was arranged a splendid 
library, the volumes of which were in- 
estimable, because they consisted, not of 
actual performances, but of the works 
which the authors only planned, without 
ever finding the happy season to achieve 
them. To take familiar instances, here 
were the untold tales of Chaucer's Can- 
terbury Pilgrims ; the unwritten cantos 
the Fairy Queen ; the conclusion of 
Coleridge's Christabel ; and the whole of 
Dryden's projected epic on the subject 
of King Arthur. The shelves were crowd- 
ed ; for it would not be too much to 
affirm that every author has imagined 
and shaped out in his thoughts more and 
far better works than those which actual- 
ly proceeded from his pen. And here like- 
wise, were the unrealized conceptions of 
youthful poets who died in the strength 



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of their own genius before the world 
had caught one inspired murmur from 
their lips. 

When the peculiarities of the library 
and the statue-gallery were explained to 
the Oldest Inhabitant, he appeared in- 
finitely perplexed, and exclaimed with 
more energy than usual, that he had 
never heard of such a thing within his 
memory, and, moreover, did not under- 
stand how it could be 

"But my brain, I think," said the old 
gentleman, "Is getting not so clear as it 
used to be. You young folks, I suppose 
can see your way through these strange 
matters. For my part I give it up." 

"And so do I," muttered tihe Old 
Harry. "It is enough to puzzle the — 
Ahem !" 

Making as little reply as possible to 
these observations, the Man of Fancy 
preceded the company to another noble 
saloon, the pillars of which were solid 
golden sunbeams taken out of the sky 
in the first hour in the morning. Thus, 
as they retained all their living lustre, 
the room was filled with the most cheer- 
ful radiance imaginable, yet not too 
dazzling to be borne with comfort and 
delight. The windows were beautifully 
adorned with curtains made of the many 
colored clouds of sunrise, all imbued 
with virgin light, and hanging in mag- 
nificent festoons from the ceiling to the 
floor. Moreover, there were fragments 
of rainbows scattered through the room ; 
so that the guests, astonished at one 
another, reciprocally saw their heads 
made glorious by the seven primary 
hues; or, if thev chose, — as who would 
not?— they could grasp a rainbow in 
the air and convert it into their own ap- 
parel and adornment. But the morning 
light and scattered rainbows were only 
a type and symbol of the real wonders 
of the apartment. By an influence akin 
to magic, yet perfectly natural, whatever 
means and opportunities of jov are ne- 
glected in the lower world had been 
carefully gathered up and deposited in 
the saloon of the morninn- sunshine. As 
may well be supposed, therefore, there 
was material enough to supply, not mere- 
ly a joyous evening, but also a Innnv 
lifetime, to _ more than as many people 
as that spacious apartment could contain. 
The company seemed to renew th oil- 
youth ; while that pattern and proverb- 
ial standard of innocence; the Child 
Unborn, frolicked to and fro amon^ 



them, communicating his own unwrin- 
kled gayety to all who had the good for- 
tune to witness his gambols. 

"My honored friends," said the Man 
of Fancy, after they had enjoyed them- 
selves awhile, "I am now to request your 
presence in the banqueting hall where a 
slight collation is awaiting you." 

"Ah, well said !" ejaculated a cadaver- 
ous figure, who had been invited for no 
other reason than that he was pretty 
constantly in the habit of dining with 
Duke Humphrey. "I was beginning to 
wonder whether a castle in the air were 
provided with a kitchen." 

It was curious, in truth, to see how 
instantaneously the guests were diverted 
from their high moral enjoyments which 
they had been tasting with so much ap- 
parent zest by a suggestion of the more 
solid as well as liquid delights of the 
festive board. They thronged eagerly in 
the rear of the host, who now ushered 
them into a lofty and extensive hall, 
from end to end of which was arranged 
a table, glittering all over with innumer- 
able dishes and drinking-vessels of gold. 
It is an uncertain point whether these 
rich articles of plate were made for the 
occasion out of molten sunbeams, or re- 
covered from the wrecks of Spanish gal- 
leons that had lain for ages at the bot- 
tom of the sea. The upper end of the 
table was overshadowed by a canoov, be- 
neath which was placed a chair of elab- 
orate magriificance, which the host him- 
self declined to occupv, and besouerht his 
guests to assign it to the worthiest among 
them. As suitable homage to his incal- 
cuable antiquity and eminent distinction, 
the oost of honor was at first tendered 
to the Oldest Inhabitant. He, however, 
eschewed it, and requested the favor of 
a bowl of gruel at a side table, where he 
could refresh himself with a quiet nap. 
There was some little hesitation as to 
the next candidate until Posterity took 
the Master Genius of our countrv by 
the hand and led him to the chair of 
state beneath the princely canopy. When 
once they beheld him in his true place, 
the coinnanv acknowledged the justice 
of the selection by a long thunder-roll of 
vehement applause. 

Then there was served up a banquet, 
combining, if not all the delicacies of the 
season, yet ^11 the rarieties which careful 
purveyors had met with in the flesh, fish, 
and vegetable markets of the land of No- 
where. The bill of fare being unfortun- 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



ately lost, we can only mention a phoenix, 
roasted in its own flames, cold potted 
birds of paradise, ice-creams from the 
Milky-Way, and whip syllabubs and 
flummery from the Paradise of Fools, 
whereof therewasavlry great consump- 
tion. As for the drinkables, the temper- 
ance people contented themselves with 
water as usual ; but it was the water of 
the Fountain of Youth ; the ladies sipped 
Nepenthe ; the lovelorn, the careworn and 
the sorrow-stricken were supplied with 
brimming goblets of Lethe ; and it was 
shrewdly conjectured that a certain vase 
of gold, from which only the more dis- 
tinguished guests were invited to partake, 
contained nectar that had been mellow- 
ing ever since the days of classical myth- 
ology. The cloth being removed, the 
company, as usual, grew eloquent over 
their liquor and delivered themselves 
of brilliant speeches, — the task of report- 
ing which we assign to the more ade- 
quate ability of Counsellor Gill, whose 
indispensable co-operation the Man of 
Fancy had taken the precaution to se- 
cure. 

When the festivity of the banquet was 
at its most ethereal point, the Clerk of 
the Weather was observed to steal from 
the table and thrust his head between the 
purple and golden curtains of one of the 
windows. "My fellow-guests," he remark- 
ed aloud, after carefully noting the signs 
of the night, "I advise such of you as 
live at a distance to be going as soon as 
possible ; for a thunder-storm is certainly 
at hand." 

"Mercy on me !" cried mother Carey, 
who had left her brood of chickens and 
come hither in gossamer drapery, -with 



pink silk stockings. "How shall I ever 
get home?" 

All was now hasty departure and con- 
fusion, with but little superfluous leave 
taking. The Oldest Inhabitant, however, 
true to the rule of those long past days' 
in which his courtesy had been studied, 
paused on the threshold of the meteor- 
lighted hall to expres ., his vast satisfac- 
tion at the entertainment. 

"Never, within my memory," observed 
the gracious old gentleman, "has it been 
my good fortune to spend a pleasanter 
evening or in more select society." 

The wind here took his breath away, 
whirled his three-cornered hat into in- 
finite space, and drowned what further 
compliments it had been his purpose to 
bestow. Many of the company had be- 
spoken will-o'-the-wisps to convey 
them home ; and the host, in his general 
beneficience, had engaged the Man in 
the Moon, with an immense horn-lan- 
tern, to be the guide of such desolate 
spinsters as could do no better for them- 
selves. But a blast of the rising tempest 
blew out all their lights in the twinlikng 
of an eye. How, in the darkness that 
ensued, the guests contrived to get back 
to earth, or whether the greater part of 
them contrived to get back at all, or are 
wandering among the clouds, mists, and 
puffs of tempestuous winds bruised by 
the beams and rafters of the overthrown 
castle in the air, and deluded by all sorts 
of unrealities, are points that concern 
themselves much more than the writer 
or the public. People should think of 
these matters before they trust them- 
selves on a pleasure-party into the realm 
of Nowhere. 





MRS. BYRON S. HENRY 



NOVEMBER 



A magdalene now brings her crown 
Of burnished gold ami reddened brown 
Tear, oil and box of myrrh, 
To serve, annoint and bless the year 
Waiting for Winter's cross and bier; 
Earth's shroud and sepulcher. 

— Emilv Householder. 




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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND 

Frederick Dixon of London, England 



THE Emperor Napoleon, in one of 
the most sardonic phrases im- 
puted to him, once declared that 
"God was on the side of the big 
battalions." With a truer sense 
of divine proportion, Douglas claimed 
that "with God one was a majority." 
Even on its own plane the Napoleonic 
epigram is absurd, as his own ideal soi- 
dier, Frederick of Prussia, proved at 
Rossbach and Luethen. The truth of 
Douglas's statement, on the other hand, 
has been tested in all the centuries which 
had elapsed since Jesus of Nazareth had 
said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
but my words shall not pass away." 

The disciples of the Greek and Roman 
philosophers took elaborate precautions 
to preserve for posterity the utterances of 
their teachers, who had for an audience 
the educated population of the Mediter- 
ranean basin. The Syrian carpenter 



wandering through the villages of an ob- 
scure province of the empire of the Cae- 
sars, speaking, in the accents of a dying 
tongue, to the shepherds and fisherman 
of a despised and conquered people, by 
the lake shore, where the winds blew as 
they listed, and on the hillsides, where 
the fields were white for the harvest, 
never feared that his words would be lost 
because he knew that they were the ex- 
pression of eternal Truth. 

The voice of the Christian Science 
Church today is an echo however "faint 
and far," of the words of Jesus. It is 
answering, however, insufficiently, the 
question of Palgrave : 

"Ah, sense bound heart and blind: 
Is naught but what we see ? 
Can time undo what once was true? 
Can we not follow thee?" 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND 



2' 



And it is doing- this by means of what 
so deep a thinker as Principal Lindsay 
has described as a "superb faith," which 
when analyzed must be reduced to an 
unqualified acceptance of the promise of 
Jesus. "He that believeth in me, the 
uorks that I do shall he do also." 

The power of a church founded on 
such a basis rests not on numbers, but on 
demonstration. Numbers may easily 
amount to a church built on the sands of 
mere human opinion as to Truth : demon- 
stration is the evidence that the founda- 
tions of the church are sunk in the rock 
which is the Truth. Jesus himself al- 
luded to this in one of the best known of 
all his sayings: "I say also unto thee, 
that thou art Peter (petros, a fragment 
of rock), and upon this rock (petra. rock 
itself), I will build my church;" that is 
to say, you have a perception of what 
Truth is, but upon Truth itself I will 
build my church. 

The Christian Science movement in 
England, as elsewhere, is the attempt to 
work out the gospel preached bv Jesus, 
two thousand years ago, in a way made 
practical to the life of the twentieth cen- 
tury through the study of the Christian 
Science text-book, Science and Health 
with Key to the Scriptures, by Mrs. 
Eddy. That superficial observers should 
have been unable to see that there was 
anything in Christian Science to appeal 
to the English people is not surprising ; 
for it is as certain as anything can be 
that the success of the movement was 
never, for a moment, anticipated by the 
thinkers. One of the most astute and in- 
veterate of Mrs. Eddy's opponents, in 
the country, declared not verv long since, 
in a moment of confidence, that she had 
succeeded in the impossible ; and inter- 
preted this by explaining that she had 
written a book which no sane publisher 
would have accepted, with the result that 
she had achieved a record circulation, and 
hrul instituted a form of service calculated 
to drive away congregations, with the re- 
sult that while other churches were 
emptying those of her own denomination 
were crowded. Whatever may be thought 
of the speaker's premises, how true his 
conclusions were anyone who cares to 
may prove for himself. On the worst 
winter nights, on the most perfect sum- 
mer evenings, the Christian Science 
churches are crowded with congregations 
who can have no greater attraction of- 




First Church of Christ.'Scientist, 
London, England 



and 



fered to them than the Sunday 
Wednesday services. 

There is nothing, perhaps, which strikes 
the stranger at these services so much 
as the large proportion of young men 
attending them. The vicar of a great 
church in the midlands declared, not 
lung ago, that the Christian Science 
movement was getting this which 
his own church was losing. Tt 
was nut a hurried verdict given 



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THE MIDWESTERN 



after a chance visit, it was a sober and 
deliberate judgment given after a some- 
what prolonged and regular attendance. 
For an explanation of this you need only 
attend the Wednesday meetings, and you 
will hear from the lips of those concerned 
the cause of the phenomenon. It is that 
they haye found Science and Health to be 
indeed the Key to the Scriptures. In the 
old days, the Bible had been to them a sort 
of "cribV to the Greek Testament, per- 
mitted because it could not well be with- 
held, or the source of certain passages, 
like the Commandments, which they had 
learned, to use a phrase of Omar's trans- 
lator, willy-nilly, by heart. They had 
suffered, as generations of schoolboys 
have suffered over Homer, for want of 
someone to show them that there was 
something more to be got out of Greek 
poetry than a torment of "philological 
verbiage." Keats, who it has been said 
was a Greek, born without a knowledge 
of Greek, learned all he knew of Homer 
from reading Chapman ; then, he writes: 

"Then felt I like some watcher of the 
skies, 
When a new planet swims into his 
ken; 
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle 
eyes 
He stared at the Pacific — and all his 
men 
Looked at each other with wild surmise 
Silent upon a peak in Darien." 

How many young, or for that matter 
old, Christian Scientists have felt like 
Keats, when they read Science and 
Health for the first time ? It has taught 
them that the ninety-first psalm was a 
true psalm of life, and the Sermon on 
the Mount, so far from being as a certain 
religious leader once said, impracticable 
the incarnation of divine practice. It 
has taught them that health and happi- 
ness are the result of clean living, which 
in turn is the product of clean thinking; 
"blessed," said Jesus, "are the pure in 
heart ; for thev shall see God." It is 
likely enough that most young men turn 
their thoughts to religion when they are 
sick, but few remember it when they are 
well, and fewer still think of it in connec- 
tion with their amusements. There is, 
indeed, a general element in their thought 
which may be expressed in the doggeral 
lines : 



"The devil was sick, the devil a monk 
would be, 
The devil was well, the devil a monk 
was he." 

The Christian Scientist, however, car- 
ries it into his work and play alike ; and 
he finds in effect that, just as he can do 
more work and do it better, so he can 
play a better game, and play it more un- 
selfishly. Some years ago one of two 
small boys who were watching a tennis 
match through a chink in a paling ex- 
plained to his friend that "the one in 
white was a Christian Scientist, and be- 
lieved he could lick everyone." The 
Christian Scientist at play no more thinks 
he can "lick" everyone than the Christian 
Scientist at work thinks he is better than 
everyone. The Christian Scientist work- 
er is fully conscious of one thing, and that 
is that he is himself much better than he 
used to be. The reading of Science and 
Health, in a beautiful phrase of Mr. Vos- 
burgh's, has shown him something of the 
transfiguration on the mountain top, and 
he is at least struggling to hold to it in the 
experience of the valley. So the Chris- 
tian Scientist in the playing fields does 
not imagine that Christian Science is go- 
ing to enable him to win everything, but 
he knows that he is being enabled to do 
the very best that is in him. Now to do 
the best that is in him he has got to begin 
to conquer fear, anxiety, idleness, sen- 
suality, all the things that go toward 
spelling failure, and sickness, and sin; 
and so he begins to run his race on the 
lines of Paul's great simile taken from 
the Isthmian games, "forgetting those 
things which are behind, and reaching 
forth unto those things which are before, 
I press toward the mark for the prize of 
the high calling of God in Christ 
Jesus." 

To anyone who is conversant with the 
place sport occupies in English life, the 
significance of these facts will be appar- 
ent. There are two kinds of books, and 
two only, said a great London bookseller, 
the other day, the sale of which seems 
perennial, they are those on sport and 
those on the country. The young men 
have found a religion which, in their 
opinion, not only enables them to live 
better and purer lives, but which can be 
carried practically every day into their 
work and play. "Mens sana in corpore 
sano" ran the Latin proverb, and made 
a. man's mental grip dependent on his 
physical health. "Corpus sanum in mente 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND 



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Sunday School Room (chairs removed) First Church of Christ, Scientist, London 



tana," the Christian Science emendation 
would run, for as a man "-thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." "Even in this world, 
therefore," as Mrs. Eddy writes on page 
267 of Science and Health, "let thy gar- 
ments be always white." 

It is perhaps, an extension of this ar- 
gument that has given Christian Science 
so tight a grip on the army. There has 
been a strong religious tendency in it, 
and the great Duke once declared that the 
officers of the engineers were all "mad, 
married or Methodists." Christian 
Science has invaded the engineers today, 
and not only the engineers, the entire 
army. It began, in quite the early days, 
at the Staff College, at Camberley, where 
the brain of the army is made. Two of 
the earlier converts became in time read- 
ers in two of the London churches, while 
a third f.mght through the Boer war, and 
was the hero of an escape of the redoubt- 
able DeWet. A fourth was engaged in 
the Somali expedition, and made a won- 
derful recovery from a severe injury, 
thanks to the knowledge of Christian 
Science he had gained in England. From 



the Staff College Christian Science found 
its way into the other branches of the 
service, and so successfully that there 
is today a society at Aldershot, the chief 
military station in the country. 

The progress in the senior service has 
been naturally less rapid. Sailors are 
commonly at sea, and have less opportun- 
ity for pursuing the study of the subject. 
Some little progress, however, has been 
made in the marines, much of whose time 
is spent ashore ; whilst in the little town 
of High Wycombe, situated in the midst 
of that Buckingham country, connected 
with the names of Burke, of Waller, and 
of Beaconsfield, there is a society whose 
reader is a sailor who has commanded 
the fleets of England all over the world. 
The growth of Christian Science in Eng 
land, however, as elsewhere in the world, 
has been the result of patient effort to 
overcome disease and sin ; and in Eng- 
land, as elsewhere, the strength of the 
movement lies not in one direction or 
another, but in the fact that it has ap- 
pealed to all sorts and conditions of men. 

Tt is recorded of Jesus, in the Gospel of 



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St. Mark, that "the common people heard 
him gladly." Now the phrase, "Common 
people" or multitude," by which the 
Greek word "ochlos" is translated, is 
used, throughout the New Testament, in 
contradistinction to the phrase "the 
Jews." It is not meant to apply, as is 
frequently supposed, solely to the prole- 
tariate, it includes the great body of the 
nation, in the Hebrew oligarchy, as op- 
posed to the mere governing faction. It 
was the "common people" in this sense 
from whom the Scottish Covenanters and 
the Pilgrim Fathers were drawn; it is 
"the common people," in this sense who 
have welcomed every effort of social and 
ethical reform ; and it is the "common 
people" in this great, broad, splendid 
sense to whom the Christian Science in 
England is appealing today. The Eng- 
lish oligarchy is, of course, a thing of the 
past. The Tory cabals and Whig juntos 
have vanished way into the ewigkeit. We 
are all socialists now, Lord Salisbury 
once said, "The common people" are 
fettered by class distinctions, their char- 
acteristic is reverence. Reverence is not 
things religious. It can be ex- 
cited by anything that appeals to 
man's respect. The very agnostic may 
become conscious of it as he gazes at the 
grey towers of some northern cathedral 
"catching in their square masses the last 
rays of the sunset." The English peo- 
ple with their glorious history, their an- 
cient and splendid literature, their mir- 
acles of art scattered all over the country 
by the mediaeval builders are impreg- 
nated with it. To experience it a boy 
need not have been to Winchester, or sat 
in that Oxford library, where 
Duns Scotus and Alquinas once 
labored. Many a village church, 
and many a farm house the grange 
tery. It is the unconscious sense of rev- 
erence thus fostered, innate even in those 
to whom the Bible is little more than a 
name, which Christian Science has lifted 
into a purer atmosphere, and chastened 
with a true sense of obedience. 

The greatness of England, Queen Vic- 
toria was fond of saying, had been built 
up on the Bible. Those who have been 
able to see the power of the Bible only 
in the mistakes men have made in respect 
of it have cavilled at this, but it contains 
an essential truth. It would be 
altogether impossible to overesti- 



mate the influence of the Bible 
on English thought, it has been, 
certainly for twelve centuries, the 
dominating force of the life and literature 
of the country. The mutterings of ration- 
alism, which first became dangerously 
audible in the eighteenth century, and 
which were perhaps at their loudest in 
the nineteenth, in the day of Darwin, 
Huxley, and Spencer, when, in the words 
of the Bishop of Winchester "the leaders 
of the great historic church parties were 
for the most part strenuously opposed to 
the movements of intellectual change in 
science, criticism, and philosophy," 
threatened for a time to eclipse the Bible 
in popular estimation no less than that 
of scholars. It was then that "Science 
and Health" came to the help of the Eng- 
lish people, giving them a spiritual, no 
less than a practical and intellectual grasp 
on the book which seemed slipping away 
from them. This is not the moment, 
however great the temptation, to 
attempt to show the effect of Mrs. 
Eddy's exegesis on the study of the 
Bible, that attempt would take an article 
to itself. Carlyle threw a flood of mean- 
ing into a single sentence when he said of 
Dr. Johnson, that he worshipped at St. 
Clement Danes, in the era of Voltaire; 
and it must suffice to say here, that in a 
moment fraught with far greater conse- 
quences to Christianity than the day of 
the Encyclopaedists, the teaching of 
Science and Health raised uo in England 
an earnest and intelligent body of people 
convinced of the truth of Mrs. Eddy's 
words, in the Christian Science Journal 
of May, 1906, "The Bible is our sea- 
beaten rock. It guides the fisherman. It 
stands the storm. It engages the atten- 
tion and enriches the being of all men." 
It is only necessary to attend a 
Wednesday testimony meeting to discov- 
er the truth of this, and to realize how 
deep is the gratitude of the speakers, as 
a body, to Mrs. Eddy, for having made 
the Bible live for them again. 

If this estimate is a fair one, it is mani- 
fest that the spread of Christian Science 
in England must be measured by a stand- 
ard quite unlike that which Sir Robert 
Walpole grimly applied to patriots, when 
he said he could grow them like mush- 
rooms in a night, and more like that of 
oak which adds to its girth steadily year 
by year. This will be found to be the 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN ENGL**. D 




31 



Interior of First Church of Christ, Scientist, London 



cue. From London the movement pushed 
out its tendrils to the capitals of Scotland 
and Ireland, to Edinburgh and Dublin, 
and they in turn shot them out into the 
principal commercial centers of their re- 
spective countries, Glasgow and Belfast. 
Again from London there went out work- 
ers who laid the foundations of the 
churches in Manchester and Hull, from 
which the movement has crept all through 
the manufacturing towns of Lancashire 
and Yorkshire. From London also there 
went those who carried the "good news" 
to Brighton on the south coast, and into 
the west country ; and there in the Wes- 
sex of Mr. Hardy, and for that matter of 
history, in the two great ports from which 
Drnkc and Cabot sailed on their voyages 
to America, there are today Christian 



Science societies. The acorn which Mrs. 
Eddy's messenger dropped nineteen 
years ago, in a London Square, has 
grown into a plantation which is develop- 
ing into a forest as great as that which 
William Rufus fenced nine hundred years 
ago. in Hampshire, from I he oaks of 
which were hewn, for centuries, the 
wooden walls of England. 

These facts are sufficient to dispel the 
foolish statement, often entertained be- 
cause of much repetition, that Christian 
Science, in England, is a "society fad." 
Why what is termed "Society" should 
be barred from the joy of Christian 
Science, no one has ever yet explained, 
though sume people seem to regard such 
a condition as only decent. Goldsmith 



32 



THE MIDWESTERN 



described Burke, in a famous passage, as 

one 

"Who born for the universe, narrowed 

his mind, 
And to party gave up what was meant 

for mankind," 
but such a criticism will never be possible 
of Christian Science. Within the Chris- 
tian Science movement men and women 
mingle without much regard to what the 
catechism ingenously calls the state of 
life to which it has pleased God to call 
them. Standing on a common foundation 
of truth, united by a common purpose, 
they are rising above the vulgar striving 
after social prestige, "content," if I may 
quote a saying of Paul's^ from the work 
of one of the greatest of Grecians, "with 
the station in life in which they were 
when called." 

Christian Science is vast enough to 
sweep in its net all who are seeking 
Truth in earnest. Its recruits may come 
from the peerage or from the old coun- 
ty families ; from the services of the 
learned professions; from the mer- 
chants' offices and government depart- 
ments ; but they come too from the ar- 
senals and dockyards, and the factories 
and shops, even from what is euphon- 
iously termed the "gutter," as the fol- 
lowing paragraph from the London 
"Mystic" shows : 

"But Christian Science is not a religion 
for the rich alone, as is sometimes main- 
tained by those who know the least about 
it. There was not long since a poor 
woman in one of the London districts 
living in one room, in receipt of parish 
relief, and suffering from what the medi- 
cal men chose to term an incurable com- 
plaint of the eyes. The hospital authori- 
ties had told her that there was no pos- 
sible cure for her complaint, that not 
even an operation could be successful. 
By some means she was discovered 
by a Christian Scientist, who 
rendered assistance in the provision of 
material necessities, and put her on her 
way to recovery and complete restoration 
to health. She was completely cured, and 
in due course presented herself to the 
hospital surgeon who had pronounced her 
incurable. His professional reserve was 
overcome by his astonishment, and he 
burst forth with the statement: 'Well, 
you certainly are cured, and all I can say 
is that it is a miracle.' The woman is 
now earning a good living, her material 
prospects have greatly improved, and 



-here is no more regular attendant at one 
c r the churches of the Christian Scien- 
tists in London today than she." 

If it were demanded which section of 
the community had actually supplied the 
movement with the greatest number of 
recruits, it would be possible, by the 
simple process of exhausting the obvious, 
to reply the commercial. Remembering 
that, in the phrase of an irritated genius, 
we are a "nation of shopkeepers," this 
was inevitable, but the fact is not with- 
out its significance, for the commercial 
mind is commonly regarded as the least 
prone to what our ancestors called 
"vapours." It is not, like that which de- 
votes itself to the study of art and litera- 
ture, given to "building castles in the 
air;" neither has it, like the military 
mind, a bias dogmawards. It deals with 
the most prosaic matters in the relent- 
less spirit of a balance sheet prepared by 
Mr. Micawber; and is incapable, in the 
face of what it regards as competition and 
the law of supply and demand, of emulat- 
ing the heroism of the Christian Scientist 
in pain, who is supposed to "believe" that 
he can overcome it by a simple blank de- 
nial. It is an indication of what is hap- 
pening that there exists today an oasis 
in the midst of the desert of warehouses, 
docks, and offices which circle round the 
grim Norman fortress, which the Con- 
queror built, upwards of nine hundred 
years ago, to command the passage of 
the Thames. Here in the angle of what 
was once the old city wall, where it was 
pierced by the gate leading on to the 
heather moor which stretched up the hill 
to Highgate woods, are some rooms occu- 
pied by a group of city men, who come 
to read there in their leisure, and to see 
their patients, employed in the surround- 
ing offices. 

It would be imagined that these men 
sitting in their offices all the week, facing 
the problems of the commercial world 
of today, might be credited with an abil- 
ity to judge whether Christian Science 
was a matter of practical help to them, 
or a mere shibboleth. Yet it was to one 
of them that a well known clergyman 
once expressed his surprise that a man so 
intelligent should have adopted so ridicu- 
lous a religion. If, was the answer, 
Science and Health, is ridiculous I can- 
not possibly be intelligent; if, on the 
other hand, I am intelligent, thebook I 
p-uide my life by cannot be ridiculous. 
The logic was on the side of the Chris- 



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33 



tian Scientist, but it is to be susr ected 
that at the Pan-Angelican Congress tht 
vote would have gone against him. 

Arguments such as this will never stop 
the rush of Christian Science; there is 
indeed no argument strone enough for 
that. The opposition to it stands like the 
figure of Dame Partington in her heroic 
effort to sweep back the ocean with 
her mop. She was excellent, says her 
biographer, at a puddle, but she had 
no business to meddle with the ele- 
ments. 

It is said of Christian Scientists that 
they make too much of Mrs. Eddy. Such 
a criticism could only come from those 
who have no conception of how Christian 
Scientists really do regard Mrs. Eddy. 
Christian Scientists love Mrs. Eddy be- 
cause she above all others has taught 
them what love means; and they are 
grateful to her because she has unlocked 
for them the prison-house of their old 
doubts and fears. To say that the truth 
Mrs. Eddy has taught was in the world 
before she was born is nothing to the 
point. Steam and electricity were in 
the world before Stephenson or Wheat- 
stone, but that did not enable men to 
travel by rail or send telegraphic mes- 
sages. What Mrs. Eddy has done for 
the world is this, she has shown it some- 
thing it seems to have forgotten for well 



nigh two thousand years, that the promi- 
ses made by Jesus to humanity are all, 
without exception, equally as real and 
available today as on the day they were 
first given. To thousands upon thou- 
sands of homes darkened by sickness and 
the shadow of death she has brought the 
sunlight of health and life. To thousands 
upon thousands of hearts faint with de- 
spair and burdened with sin, she has 
brought hope and peace. And if all these 
people give the glory for what has come 
to them to God, would it not be strange 
if they were not grateful to her who 
brought this good tidings to them? 

In England, where only a handful of 
Christian Scientists even seen Mrs. 
Eddy's face, and where only a fraction 
of this handful has held her hand, and 
listened to her voice, there is a love for 
her which it would be difficult to trace 
to emotion, and a desire to aid her by 
learning better to understand her teach- 
ing; and her teaching on this particular 
point may be summed up in a sentence 
taken from a letter of hers published in 
the Christian Science Sentinel, of July, 
1906: "There was never a religion or 
philosophy lost to the centuries except 
by sinking its divine principle in person- 
ality. May all Christian Scientists pon- 
der on this fact, and give their talents and 
direction." 



PROSPERITY 



It's a-coming! It's a-coming, 

It is floating in the air, 
One can hear it busy humming, 

One can see it here and there. 
Men are working, wheels are turning, 

Chimneys once more pour smoke out 
From the factory fires brisk burning, 

And there's bustle all about. 

Days of panic fear are passing, 
Days of confidence are come ; 

Goods are in the market massing, 
Every day adds to the sum 



Of the trade that's fast reviving, 

Of new enterprises born. 
Of new energies keen striving, 

Treating doubt and fear with scorn. 

Give it welcome full and hearty, 

Help it all along the line; 
As prosperity's a party 

For whom one cannot long and pine. 
It needs energetic wooing, 

If one bids it come to stay, 
So let all be up and doing 

That it may bide this way. 

— Baltimore American. 



TURNING BACK THE WATCH 

J. D. Johnson 





J, D. JOHNSON 

Did you ever take a trip "out west" 
and note, on the railway time table, the 
change from "Central" to "Mountain" 
time? 

Do you recall the effect upon the 
mind of setting your watch back an 
hour — of "living over again," as it 
were, an hour of your life? 

1 did. A little while ago, on a busi- 
ness trip to the West, while passing 
through the sand hills of Nebraska, on 
a bright, sunny afternoon, practically 
alone, I noticed that the train reached 
a certain division station at 3:15 and 
left at 2 :3a 

In making former tours, east and 
west, T had left my watch set at "Cen- 
tral" time, but hail always found it 
more or less confusing because of be- 
ing an hour too fast or too slow, hence 
on this occasion I determined to set it 
back at the same station chosen by the 



railway company upon whose line I 
was traveling. 

During the fifteen minutes' wait at 
the station while changing engines, ic- 
ing water coolers, and doing other 
things for the convenience of the hu- 
man freight aboard, my time was 
spent "stretching my legs," walking 
about the depot and seeing such things 
as I thought might interest me. The 
change of time was forgotten entirely 
while enjoying the glorious air and 
sunshine for a brief quarter hour. 

The conductor's "all 'board" brought 
me "to earth" — or rather the Pullman 
car — again, and in a few minutes the 
little city, built up because a great car- 
rying corporation had chosen to make 
it a "division station," was left behind. 
Again we were rolling across the 
plains. TIere and there were herds of 
sleek, fat cattle; a ranch house and 
corrals under the protecting shelter of 
favorably situated hills occasionally 
came in view. A windmill with its 
bird-like vane extended was responding 
slowly to the gentle breeze and pump- 
ing water for the cattle ; or perhaps the 
vane might have been folded up and 
the mill standing idle — yet no more so 
than I, going away from civilization, 
as it were. 

All the daily papers had been read 
and re-read and my itinerary was such 
that later editions were impossible un- 
less an accident befell our train, delay- 
ing it until the next train might over- 
take us, twelve or twenty-four hours 
later. I wasn't in the humor for novels 
nr magazines. T was going out on bus- 
iness — -besides T had left home on the 
afternoon of election day. When we 
left Omaha at midnight, the bulletins 
claimed a landslide for Taft. Rut there 
were favorites here and there — con- 
gressmen, representatives, governors, 
county officers and even the senatorial 
primaries, of which I had no returns 
whatever. 

As 1 ruminated upon these things 
and wished for an "extra" that would 
"guess" upon every successful candi- 
date's majority, it all at once occurred 



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35 



to me that I had not set my watch 
back. 

To think was to act. I didn't look 
for the conductor or other train hand 
to set my watch by his, but waited, 
carefully, watch in hand, until the sec- 
ond hand pointed to "60" and then with 
a quick turn of the hand set it back an 
even hour. 

I sat there looking at the dial while 
the watch ticked off the seconds and 
the seconds lengthened into minutes. 
It dawned upon me that I had a whole 
hour of my life to live over again. But 
this had been an uneventful hour. 
There had been little of interest to see. 
There were but few passengers on the 
Pullman. I had learned all I could 
from each of them in conversation ; had 
played cribbage with the only "congen- 
ial spirit" until both tired of the great 
game ; there was nothing to do but 
think — until the call "dinner is ready 
in the dining car" should be made. 

As I thought I recalled wasted op- 
portunities — and many, many hours 
that might be vastly improved if I 
could but turn back the watch upon 
the particular hour in mind. 

I thought of unkindly acts to my 
sainted mother and oh! if I could but 
turn back the watch upon some of 
them. 

I thought of foolish and senseless 
business acts and wondered how dif- 
ferent my financial condition might be 



made by turning back the watch and 
doing things differently. 

I thought of hasty words spoken that 
destroyed friendships which might be 
lifelong and full of pleasure if I could 
but turn back the watch and make the 
amends and apologies my false pride 
rebelled against at the time. 

I thought of the time, when as a 
boy, I decided to leave the old farm 
home ; of my old father's tears and en- 
treaties ; of his offer to give me an edu- 
cation if I would but stay. But I had 
determined to become a merchant; I 
refused — spurned the chance to get an 
education as had been the dream of 
my boy-life. Oh ! if I could but turn 
the watch back upon that hour I might 
now know the things I want to know. 

An hour is a little thing — just an 
hour — one. But each hour has sixty 
minutes, and each minute sixty sec- 
onds. When one has nothing else to 
do he can think, every second, of a lot 
of things he wishes he might have 
done differently. 

And I tried to compute the good 
that might come if all the people who 
mean well might turn back their 
watches and change the wasted fool- 
ish hours into something that might 
make the world better and themselves 
happier. 

But — "Dinner is ready in the dining 
car" — and after dinner a cigar — and 
more cribbage — and then sleep. 



PATIENCE 

Beth Slater Whitson 



I stood within the halls of Joy 
And asked, "If one could point the way 
To Sorrow's house." With manner coy, 
Impatiently, each answered "nay." 

I knocked upon the door of Pain. 

"Can tell where Sorrow lives ?" I cried — 



But there too, I had sought in vain ; 
"Joy is my mother," Pain replied. 

Then met I one whose face serene 
Was as a light upon the earth ; 
"Sorrow," she said with gentle mien— 
"Ah, yes — 'twas she that gave me birth. 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



M 



UCH is being said both pro 
and con respecting municipal 
ownership of public utilities. 
The most forcible objection 
to such ownership is that the 
plan is invariably a scheme of poli- 
ticians to get under their control enter- 
prises which, not one in a hundred of 
them, has the business capacity to cre- 
ate or manage as a private enterprise. 
So palpable was this in Des Moines, 
the people got tired of it and sought' 
by a change in the form of government 
to eliminate politics entirely, and se- 
cure competency in the management of 
public affairs, each member of the 
governing body to hold his place on 
probation, pending development of fit- 
ness for the place. 

Since the change there has been lit- 
tle or no agitation of municipal owner- 
ship of our public utilities. There is 
growing a better understanding of 
them with the public. It is a 
logical deduction that the farther 
it proceeds under the publicity, of 
corporation management, the more 
conclusive will become public sen- 
timent that the interests of the mu- 
nicipality and the corporations are 
mutual rather than antagonistic; that 
the corporation managers are not, as 
generally asserted, dishonest, and put 
their own aggrandizement above their 
duty to the patronizing public, and 
further, that the management of our 
utilities by practical men, and trained 
experts, is the most conducive to de- 
sired results. 

It is quite evident that all the people 
demand is an adequate return for fran- 
chise privileges, and good service at a 
fair price. 

It will be conceded that the water, 
gas, city railwav, and electric light 
companies are giving good service, and 
continually adding improvementss, for 
it is becoming the sloean that "Of all 
that is good, Des Moines dem-mrls the 
best." And they are doine this vear 
after year, as no private business is, or 



would be done, without the return of 
a dollar to the capital invested, as a 
dividend. 

THE ELECTRIC COMPANY 

The electric light company has re- 
cently been reincorporated with in- 
creased capital, on a broader and more 
substantial basis, and the name local- 
ized to Des Moines Electric Company. 
A large sum has been set apart for im- 
provements and enlargement of the 
plant. Miles and miles of wire are now 
being laid in the underground conduits. 
The contract department has also been 
reorganized and placed in charge of D. 
F. Fradette, young in years, but old in 
electric experience, having worked his 
way up from the bottom to the head 
ot the commercial lighting system of 
the Western Pennsylvania Electric Co. 
He comes highly commended for those 
qualities which will readily adapt him 
to the booster, progressive spirit domi- 
nant in Des Moines, and he has already 
entered into it to beautify the city. A 
new flat rate has been adopted for sign 
and window display lighting which, for 
completeness, convenience and rates, 
is not equaled by any other electric 
company. The sole purpose of this 
scheme is to assist in the beautifying 
plans now being worked out in many 
directions, the company believing that 
if merchants and business men will in- 
vestigate it, the result will be to put 
the city in a class by itself. Mr. Fra- 
dette will be pleased to elucidate it in 
detail to those who desire it. To his 
department every person with whom 
there has been any misunderstanding 
respecting contracts or rates, is cor- 
dially invited to come, and vigorous 
effort will be made to effect satisfac- 
tory results. 

Another plan for improvement of 
the service is the organization of a 
complaint department, where want of 
efficiency in service may be reported, 
which will receipt prompt attention, for 
in all things the new companv considers 



OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES 



37 



a satisfied patronage one of its best 
assets. 

THE WATER COMPANY 

Since the last issue of the Midwest- 
ern the sick soldiers at Fort Des Moines 
have recovered from their attack of 
typhoid fever. No more cases have 
appeared there. The absence of any 
report of the anaylses of several sam- 
ples of water taken by the city coun- 
cil, and given to expert chemists, war- 
rants the conclusion that the city water 
is free from typhoid germs. Recent 
disclosures indicate that the milk sup- 
ply of the city is a far greater menace 
to the public health than the city water. 

President Payson, and one of the di- 
rectors of the Water Company visited 
the city recently to investigate the con- 
ditions respecting the new water rates 
fixed by the city council. Mr. Payson 
expressed confidence that the company 
would be able to make a good showing 
when the subject comes before the 
court, and regretted that the question 
had not been submitted to arbitration 
instead of the courts, ,yet, notwithstand- 
ing, he said the construction of a new 
large gallery will be resumed so soon 
as the stage of water permits ; that fur- 
ther extension of mains are planned; 
that it was the intent of the company 
to keep the plant up to the highest 
point of efficiency, and give the people 
the best possible service. 

THE CITY RAILWAY 
During the last two months the city 
railway company has been compelled 
tp abandon all extension to the rebuild- 
ing of lines imposed by the repaving 
of streets, an emergency expenditure 
o ; big proportions, which does not 
come to the gas, water and electric 
companies, for when their mains and 
conduits are laid, they are under ground 
beyond the reach of the wear and tear 
of street traffic. 

Under the old system of municipal 
government streets were paved more 
»n the interest of the contractor than 
the city. Then came the plumber to 
tear up the paving and leave it in a de- 
fective condition, so that the street 
prematurely becomes not onlv unfit, 
but absolutely unsafe for travel. Re- 
paving js ordered, which necessitates 
the entire relaying f the railway track 
at great expense. During the past 



year it has relaid its track on nearly 
the entire downtown district from the 
river to Twelfth street with heavy rail 
on concrete base. To these frequent, 
irresistible, municipal street improve- 
ments, the company has, during the 
past twenty years, practically rebuilt 
and thrown into the scrap heap, its en- 
tire system, at least a dozen times, and 
that is where the nickel of patronage 
goes.The work now being done is of 
unusual stability and prospective en- 
durance. 

The conductors continue complaining 
of the carelessness of people in getting 
on and off the cars, especially the 
F-A-Y-E kind. It is only a question 
of time and they will pay the penalty. 
Another great source of danger is 
alighting from a car, passing around 
the end of it, and crossing the street 
without looking for cars or behicles 
coming in the opposite direction. The 
rapid increase of noiseless automobiles 
with their reckless drivers, renders such 
carelessness extremely hazardous. The 
company, to aid in avoiding: accidents 
from such cause, now require all cars 
approaching a standing car from the 
opposite direction, to come to a dead 
stop before passing it. If the people 
will exercise the care to protect them- 
selves that the company does to pro- 
tect them, accidents would be of rare 
occurrence. The comnanv is determ- 
ined to rid itself, so far as it can, of lia- 
bility for, and causes of accidents. 

THE GAS COMPANY 
The great strides in the lighting in- 
dustry have made it possible to not 
only successfully and reasonably il- 
luminate the home, but fully and effi- 
ciently equip business houses and their 
show windows with brilliant illumina- 
tion. Winter months 3 re here, mean- 
ing longer nights, and the lighting 
problem is one which faces one with 
the necessity of more light and better 
light. 

A recent success in gas lighting has 
been obtained by the use of the Re- 
flexolier. This fixture is made up of 
a cluster of two, three or four of the 
well known inverted Reflex liehts sup- 
plied with prism gdassware, commonly 
known as the Welsbach Holonhane Re- 
flectors, arranged on a scientifically 
designed and handsome pendant fixture 
of brush brass, finished and unexcelled 



38 



THE MIDWESTERN 





The Reflexolier 

for durability, quality of material and 
workmanship. The lighting- device is 
a chain pull, operating a cock in the 
central casing of the fixture, which 
turns on the gas and lights all the 
burners simultaneously, doing away 
with the nuisance and dirt of 
matches for ignition. A one-light pen- 
dant can also be procured to meet the 
requirements of a small room. 

The "Illuminating Engineer" of to- 
day tells us that "ideal lighting" means 
sufficient illumination on the goods to 
be displayed and at the same time hav- 
ing the light giving unit out of the 
range of vision. The brilliancy of this 
cluster enables it to hang high above 
the line of vision, thus giving the much 
sought for perfect lighting. 

In the use of this fixture the gas 
company claims to have the brightest, 
strongest and cheapest light in exist- 
ence, at the same time getting a white 
light unexcelled for its likeness to day- 
light and for the display of dry goods, 
clothing, furniture, or in fact any line 
of goods that the merchant may want 
to illuminate. Better light, cheaper 
litrht. What more can we ask? In ad- 
dition to the aforesaid advantages of 
the Reflexolier, it will be found very 
economical. The two-HHit fixture can 
be operated at a cost of seven cubic 



teet of gas or seven-tenths of one cent 
per hour here in Des Moines, where 
our rate is $1.00 for 1,000 cubic feet 
of gas; tne three-light fixture at a cost 
of ten cubic feet or one cent per hour 
and the four-light fixture at a cost of 
thirteen cubic feet or one and three 
tenths of one cent per hour. 

Again the merchant is confronted 
with the proposition of a well lighted 
show window. The gas company is 
installing the modern Welsbach system 
for this purpose, a system used in 
many of the largest wholesale and re- 
tail houses, both East and West, due to 
its high candle power, at low operating 
costs, thus enabling the merchant to 
properly display' goods, without cut- 
ting too deeply into profits. Every 
up-to-date merchant will agree that a 
well illuminated show window is an ad- 
vertisement of the very best kind. By 
attracting the attention of the passer-by 
ofttimes creates a desire which finally 
results in new business and a new cus- 
tomer. It is also possible to have the 
window illuminated whether the store 
is kept open to the public or not, as 
this system is so arranged as to be 
turned out at the desired hour every 
evening by the company, who will 
gladly furnish estimates for same to 
those interested in recent improvements 
in this line. For the past year the 
company have maintained a depart- 
ment for turning on and off either out- 
side or window lights for the consumer. 
The system is adaptable to both open 
and enclosed or deck windows, being 
installed without disturbing the window 
and in the latter style ("deck windows) 
keeping them dust proof, and free from 
heat, thus doing away with frosted 
windows. Are you satisfied with your 
present system .of li^htiner the store 
and the show window? You are the 
man, Mr. Merchant, who will be inter- 
ested in better and cheaper lighting 
and tlig gas company is a progressive 
concern that can help you to accom 
plish it. 





January in the Iowa [orests 



SKAT 



Article II. A Brief Outline 



The derivation of the word "skat," pro- 
nounced as though spelled skaht and 
dwelling a little on the sound of a, seems 
to be somewhat shrouded in mystery, al- 
though it is quite evident that it is of 
Italian origin. 

Dr. Giovanni Valeri, an ardent skat 
player and tutor to the late Prince 
Charles of Prussia, is authority for the 
belief that the word is derived from the 
term Lo Skato, meaning a treasure or 
prize, while one of our best American 
writers on the game, believes it is derived 
from the word "scartare," meaning to 
discard, and its derivative "scatola," a 
box or place of safe keeping. 

Either one sounds reasonable and prob- 
able since the two cards representing the 
"skat" are either laid aside by the "play- 
er," or picked up by him and two others 
discarded in their place, the points con- 
tained therein, in either case belonging to 
him and proving in many instances a ver- 
itable treasure in the fact that they have 
saved the game for him. 

However, be that as it may, all indica- 
tions point to skat's becoming the popular 
social amusement owing to the rapidly 
increasing number of skat players and 
the fact that society women have been 
quick to discern its superiority as a so- 
cial game on account of its adaptability 
and the general good feeling existing 
among its players. 

For the satisfaction of those who pre- 
fer some general idea of what a game is 
like, before beginning a study of it in de- 
tail, the following brief outline is given. 

Skat is played by three persons, al- 
though four or five may form a table, 
which makes it popular as any number, 
odd or even may take part in the game 
without any inconvenience whatever. 

When four play, which is the best 
number, the dealer takes no cards, al- 
though he shares in the score, his score 
being the same as the two who play 
against the "player." 

The successful bidder, called the "play- 
er," names the game to be played and 
plays alone against the other two. 



The Skat deck consists of thirty-two 
cards all below the sevens being discard- 
ed. To determine the dealer the cards 
are spread on the table and the one draw- 
ing the lowest card deals. The cards rank 
in the following order according to the 
German method, ace, ten, king, queen, 
jack, nine, eight, and seven. 

If two or more persons draw cards 
having the same face value, the one hav- 
ing the lowest suit rank deals. The suit 
ranks are : diamonds lowest, hearts next, 
then spades and clubs the highest. Card 
values : 

Each ace counts n, each ten counts 
10, each king counts 4, each queen counts 
3, each jack counts 2. The sevens, eights 
and nines have no counting value. 

The total number of points in each suit 
is 30, and since there are four suits with 
a grand total of 120 points the players 
game is reckoned won or lost according 
to the number of points he has succeed- 
ed in capturing during the course of 
play. This must not be less than 61 to 
win, representing one more than one- 
half the total number of points. 

All points over this number being of 
no import unless the "player" succeeds 
in taking home 91 points when he has 
made his adversaries, "schneider" and in- 
creased the value of his game by an extra 
multiplier. If he secures all the tricks, 
making "schwarz," his game is further 
enhanced by an additional multiplier. 

Rule for computing game values. 

The value of each game is found by 
adding to the number of "matadores" a 
"player" plays "with" or "without;" 1 
for game, whether won or lost, and one 
each for schneider or schwarz, if made, 
and multiplying this result by the unit 
value of the trump suit. In order to 
solve the mystery of "with" and "with- 
out" it is necessary to understand the 
meaning of the word sequence, which in 
card parlance consists of two or more 
cards in regular order as to rank, as ace, 
ten, king, or king, queen, nine each 
forming a sequence of three cards. 

The four jacks also called matadores 



SKAT 



41 



represent a sequence of four cards when 
held in the same hand. Aplayer hold- 
ing the club jack plays "with" one and 
as many more as he holds that are in se- 
quence with it. Example: Holding 
club and spade jacks plays "with" two. 
Holding club, spade and heart jacks, 
plays with three, etc., since they are in 
regular order and form an unbroken se- 
quence. Observe that this does not mean 
the number of jacks a player holds, but 
those that he holds which are in sequence 
with and including the club jack. A play- 
er holding the club, heart and diamond 
jacks plays "with" only one, since the 
spade jack is missing which breaks the 
sequence, although holding three jacks. 
This same rule establishes the number of 
matadores a player plays "without" and 
is reckoned on the same basis. A player 
holding the spade jack with or without 
any lower jacks and not the club jack, 
plays "without" one. Holding the heart 
jack high, both black jacks missing, 
plays "without" two, etc. 

This rule applies as far down as the 
cards run in unbroken sequence. Thus a 
player holding all four jacks including 
the ace and ten of the trump suit, plays 
"with" six matadores. Or a player's 
trump suit being topped with the queen, 
plays "without" seven. 

A good exercise is to deal the cards out 
as you would in a regular game and no- 
tice the different combinations each play- 
er would play "with" or "without." As 
skat is composed of a variety of games, it 
is necessary in order to avoid confusion 
to consider each game separately, and 
any person who contemplates a study of 
fore him. No one can remember rules 
uselwa. The responsibility for this lies 
by simply reading them — they must be 
impressed on the memory through the 
medium of sipht. and those who will 
take the time to do this will find them- 
selvps ^mply repaid. 

With the exception of one game in 
skat the four jacks are the high trump 
cards and rank in the following order: 

Jack of clubs highest, jack of spades 
next, jack of hearts next and jack of 
diamonds lowest. 

This order never changes no matter 
what suit may be trump. 

It will be noticed that the suits out- 
rank each other in the same order. 

When there are four players at the 
table, the dealer takes no cards and deals 
«n the following order, after shuffling 



the pack and presenting it to the right 
hand player who must cut them, viz : 
three at a time to each player, beginning 
on his left, then two face down on the 
table for the "skat," then four at a time 
to each and lastly three to each, making 
in all ten cards to each player. 

The German names for the three ac- 
tive players are, Vorhand, first player to 
the dealer's left ; Mittlehand, second 
player and Hinterhand, third and last 
player. 

Vorhand always leads for the first 
trick without reference to who has named 
the trump, the two others play in regular 
order and must follow suit if they can, 
but not having suit may trump or dis- 
card as their judgment dictates. The 
person winning the trick le^ds for the 
next as in any game of cards. In order 
to familiarize the beginner with the man- 
ner of dealing, counting, "fattening" and 
reckoning the value of games, it is quite 
necessary that he should take part in an 
actual game. 

For this purpose the Simple Game, also 
called Frage, will be explained. Owing 
to its low values this game is not played, 
but as an initial step and to enable the 
novice to better understand the next ar- 
ticle, practice in this game is not without 
its value. 

In this game there are eleven trumps 
— the four jacks and a suit. The unit 
value of the diamond suit is i, of the 
heart 2, of the spade 3 and the club 4. 
The cards being dealt, Vorhand picks up 
the two "skat" cards without showing 
them, names the suit he wishes for 
trump, lays aside two cards, the points 
in which, if any, belong to him and are 
reckoned in his count. He is now called 
the "plaver" and leads for the first trick. 
The other two combine as partners 
against him and proceed to "fatten" each 
others' tricks with their high counting 
cards in an effort to defeat the player's 
game by preventing him from securing 
the 61 points necessary to win his game. 
If the player wins or loses his game, it is 
computed according to the rule already 
given. To illustrate : Suppose that Vor- 
hand names the club suit for trump, hold- 
ing the following cards : Jack of clubs, 
jack of spades, jack of diamonds, ace. 
nueen, seven of clubs, all trumps, ace and 
king of hearts and ten, king of diamonds. 
He secures 61 or more points, winning 
the pame and counts it thus : "With" 2 
plus t for game equals 3, times 4 (the 



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unit value of the trump suit) equals 12, 
the value of the game which he scores to 
his credit. If he loses, each of his ad- 
versaries, including the dealer, sccg-e this 
amount to their credit. This is known 
as the American method of scoring, 
which differs from the German method. 

Each deal represents a game, but 
there should be as many deals as there 
are players at the table in order to com- 
plete a round. There may be as many 
rounds as desired. 

Any questions concerning skat will be 
answered if addressed to Skat, care of 
The Midwestern, Des Moines, Iowa. 

SKAT NOTES 

The eleventh Skat congress, held in 
New York last June, was the most suc- 
cessful gathering in the history of the 
North American Skat Leaerue. 

Altogether some four thousand play- 
ers were present, representing all the 
larger cities of the United States as well 
as a few coming from abroad. 

Judge Zeller, president of the League, 
in a rousing speech made before the con- 
vention declared skat to be the most 
scientific game played with the single ex- 
ception of chess. 

Prof. Franz Hilberling, a schoolmas- 
ter of New York City, won the first prize, 
$1,000, having a net score of 23 games 



to his credit. The second prize was 
awarded to Chas. F. Schloss, also of New 
York, who had a total of 1,1 76 points, for 
which he was given $500. The third 
prize of $300 going_ to Frank Ponneck, 
of New York, for winning a solo "with- 
out" the greatest number of matadores, 
having won a heart solo "without" ten. 
After that the prizes tapered down un- 
til the lowest prize was only $10, making, 
however, several thousand dollars alto- 
gether in money. 

Aside from money numerous other 
prizes of a uniane and expensive variety 
were given. For an interesting descrip- 
tion of these, the writer is indebted to 
Mrs. W. T. Johnston, of Des Moines, a 
skat enthusiast, who being; in New York 
at the time of the convention, had the 
pleasure of meeting Judge Zeller and of 
viewing the display of prizes. 

It was decided to hold the next meet- 
ing in Milwaukee, Wis. 

The principal officers elected for the 
ensuing year are all residents of that 
city, of whom Robert Schiller was chos- 
en president and Paul Tromow secre- 
tary. 

Of the sixteen members who compose 
the board of directors Iowa has one rep- 
resentative, Adolf Kunkel, of Davenport. 



MISS OR MR.? 

"Fighting Bob" Evans, during his last 
stay in Washington, was one evening a 
guest at a house where he met a number 
of the voungfer set of the Capital. 

As the admiral was leaving, he chanc- 
ed to pick up from the floor a verv dainty 
handkerchief, edeed with lace. He was 
gravely inspecting: this "trifle light as 
air," when a rather effeminate-looking 
young man hastened forward to claim it. 

"Your sister's, no doubt," said the ad- 
miral as he handed it over. 

"Oh, no," said the young man ; "it's 
mine." 

Evans scrutinized the young man 
closely. "Would you mind telling me 



what size hair-pins vou use?" he asked 
after a pause. — October Lip pine ott's. 

A MATTER OF CUSTOM 

Two ladies who had not seen each oth- 
er for years recently met in the street. 
They recognized each other after a time, 
and their recognition was cordial. 

"So delighted to see you again. Why, 
vou are scarcely altered," 

"So glad ; and how little changed you 
are. Why, how long is it since we met?' 

"About ten years." 

"And why have you never been to see 
me?" 

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Carolyn M. Ogilvie 
Book Talk by Miss McLoney 



ABOUT twenty years ago some 
little books were written by 
Prentice Mulford, and pub- 
lished as the "White Cross 
Library." The general subject 
of these books was, "Your Forces, and 
How to Use Them," and they present- 
ed in practical form the idea that physi- 
cal conditions may be subjected to the 
power of mental control. While Chris- 
tian Science already had secured a 
strong foothold, and the message of 
Mrs. Eddy, in her book, "Science and 
Health," was receiving a wide hearing, 
the possibility of the personal use of 
thought alone as a controlling agency 
in the practical affairs of life was less 
considered then than now, and the 
little books speedily commanded atten- 
tion. They were, however, only the 
forerunners of a flood of other books 
which should reiterate the thought 
which they contained, and elaborate the 
methods by which results might be ac- 
complished through the power of right 
thinking. The year just closing has 
developed an increased interest in 
this fascinating subject, leading to the 
publication of many new books, and 
the reissue of some older ones. These 
books evidently have come into being 
in response to a demand for more light 
as to the practical ways in which the 
'Hs of life may be assuaged bv an 
ag £? CV presumably within reach of all. 
More than ten years ago the little 
book called Menticulture ; or the A. B. 
(-■ of True Living, by Horace Fletch- 



er, attracted much notice by its force- 
ful presentation of the theory that the 
germs of all disturbances common to 
humanitymaybe robbed of their vitality 
by the application of mental remedies 
The author stated, as a fundamental 
principle, that all of the evil passions 
may be traced to one or the other of 
the two roots, anger and worry. He 
advanced the theory that if an indi- 
vidual should free himself from the in- 
fluence of these two tendencies by a 
process of "germ eradication" he should 
attain a state of freedom known as 
"Emancipation," and life thenceforward 
would be a source of delight. Critics 
sometimes were disposed to make a 
jest of the theories which the book pro- 
mulgated, as when one asserted that 
the suggestions made were equivalent 
tc "telling a man to lift himself out of 
the mire by his bootstraps." None the 
less the book found many and interest- 
ed readers and within the past year a 
new and enlarged edition hns been is- 
sued. This is by no means the first 
reproduction of the original volume, 
several other editions having been is- 
sued previously. The whole number 
required to supply the demand has 
reached almost 50,000 volumes. Not 
far from the date of the publication of 
Menticulture, Dr. Hudson wrote his 
remarkable book. "The Law of Psychic 
Phenomena." Although Metaphysical 
i:i its character, and not to be classed 
as "ligfht readiner," its popular use 
scarcely has been second to that of 



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many novels, and it is not forgotten de- 
spite the inrush of later books of simi- 
lar character. It will be seen, there- 
fore, that works of the character named, 
ranging as they do from profound study 
of psychology, its foundations and its 
significance, to a treatment of the 
subject from the practical viewpoint, 
seem to meet a real need of human so- 
ciety. 

A new edition of the book by Aaron 
Martin Crane, Right and Wrong Think- 
ing, and Its Results; or the Undreamed 
of possibilities which man may achieve 
through his own mental control, has 
been published recently. This book is 
most interestingly written and draws a 
comprehensive picture of the relations 
of thought, either right or wrong, to 
bodily action, to achievement of every 
sort, to individual development. Ac- 
cording to this author, "Thought is 
the monarch who rules the world, and 
harmonious thinking" the key to all 
progress. To the student of sociologic- 
a 1 conditions who has been depressed 
and disheartened by the problems which 
bad heredity involves, this book should 
bring something of comfort. The 
author says : "There are not any 
'born criminals,' if by that term it is 
meant that they cannot govern their 
inherited tendencies and escape from 
them. After due consideration has 
been given to inheritance, education 
and surroundings, the fact remains that 
the man's own thinking is the cause of 
his actions, and that by abandoning the 
thought the actions also will be aban- 
doned." 

The problem then will be, no doubt, 
how best to liberate and apply to the 
individual this new force which is so 
much needed and may be so potent. 

Mind and Work, or The effect of 
mental conditions upon the body, by 
Luther H. Gulick, is a new book of 
the year. The author is director of 
physical training in the New York city 
schools, but in this book he gives his 
attention to setting forth the possibili- 
ties and value of mental control, which, 
while finding representation in vis- 
ible action, yet is the real force 
governing all life. He addresses 
himself to those who would com- 
pel rather than be compelled, by 
circumstance ; who would drive rath- 
er than be driven, by their feelings ; 
who would be masters of themselves 



and so of fate. "He will have a large 
audience, since who is there who would 
not wish to be master of his fate. The 
author believes that "the atmosphere 
which makes for some, simple, straight- 
forward thinking is predominantly one 
that can be chosen by each individual 
for himself." The complex conditions 
of modern life, against which it is the 
custom to protest, he thinks should be 
accepted, as meaning additional oppor- 
tunity. He says that "the myriads ol 
new ties that modern civilization thrusts 
upon us make possible a life fuller and 
richer than ever before. Nothing is 
to be gained by fleeing; everything is 
to be gained by joyfully recognizing 
these possibilities and taking hold of 
them." The way to achievement ot 
this fulness of life is by cultivating a 
sense of proportion, an understanding 
of values, and a mental calmness which 
shall permit one to choose the import- 
ant, to dismiss from the mind, and so 
from the life, the things which are not 
vital. To be able to distinguish the 
real things from the false, to hold to 
the vision of the ideal, is what makes 
possible the life of success. While the 
theories of the books are not new, the 
practical viewpoint, the vizor of style. 
and clearness of statement make it very 
readable, and give assurance of coming 
usefulness. 

One of the most prolific, as_ well as 
enthusiastic and scholarly, writers on 
the New Thought is Mr. Henry Wood. 
His New Thought Simplified, published 
five years ago, has been one of the text 
books of the school which he represents; 
and his book bearing- the title, The 
New Old Healing, published last June, 
epitomizes the basic principles of the 
cult known as "New Thousrht." Mr. 
Wood asks the question, "Whatw the 
greatest modern discovery?" and 
answers his own query by saying, Not 
steam, electricity, the telegraph, tele- 
phone, wireless, or even aerial naviga- 
tion. All these 'pale their ineffectual 
fires' before the new recognition of 
mind as the real seat of causation, and 
the working philosophv of the conscious 
and sub-conscious realm." That man 
is the exact product of his thought, by 
scientific as well as psychological law. 
is the teaching of this apostle of tne 
creative power of mental states, and 
the prevailing interest in psvehic phen- 
omena is considered an evidence tlw 



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the time is coming when humanity, 
through a correct understanding of the 
creative powers of the mind, will be 
able to shape and control its destinies, 
conquer inanimate nature, and live a 
life of freedom from the bondage of 
the senses, or inherited habits and ten- 
dencies. To quote again: "Since it 
has come to be recognized as a scienti- 
fic and psychological law that man is 
the exact product of his thoughts, then 
every one of them becomes a part of 
the total product and contributes its 
quality toward the result — life becomes 
no chance affair, but a reliable and in- 
telligible creation." This direct and 
full expression of the theories of the 
New Thought school will be welcomed 
by those already in sympathy with its 
revelation, and will be read with inter- 
est by the many others who are striv- 
ing to reach the point of living in a 
9weet and wholesome atmosphere, even 
though, surrounded by conditions of 
sordid materialism. 

Undoubtedly the "book of the year" 
on the subject of the power of mental 
influence is Religion and Medicine ; or 
the moral control of nervous disorders, 
by Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb, 
pastors of the Emmanuel Church, Bos- 
ton, andDr.Coriat,a medical practition- 
er. As is now well known the Emman- 
uel church has undertaken to relieve 
nervous diseases of various sorts by 
mental and moral means. It calls in 
the aid of medical science to determine 
the character of the ailment, the treat- 
ment of organic diseases not cominp 
within the province of the plan. While 
scarcely to be called a report of the 
work of the church in this new field, 
the book is the official record of the 
movement. It is the 1 joint work of the 
authors named. Each one being re- 
sponsible for certain chapters. Dr. 
Worcester discusses the subject from 
the point of view of physiology and 
writes some illuminating chapters on 
the subject of the "sub-conscious" 
mind. While necessarily metaphysical 
to a considerable degree, and in 
the chapters by Dr. Coriat techni- 
cally medical, yet as a whole the 
book is written in clear and simple 
style.. This great new force has been 
sometimes applied by the use of hypno- 
tism, sometimes by simple suggestion, 
and the results have been that many 
sufferers have been sent out, after a 



course of treatment free from nervous 
depression, melancholia, or obsessions 
of various sorts. The teaching of the 
book that hypnotism properly may be 
applied as an aid, has been criticized by 
many who otherwise accept the history 
of this movement as valuable in its 
promise as well as its results. What- 
ever the possible weaknesses of the 
theory may be, the book shows such 
understanding of all human nature and 
its possibilities of suffering, and such 
sympathy with child nature, that it 
scarcely can fail to help on the move- 
ment for sweeter thinking, saner living. 
* * * 

Health and Happiness, or Religious 
Therapeutics and Right Living, by 
Bishop Fallows of Chicago, is an ac- 
count of a work done through St. Paul's 
church in Chicago, similar to that of 
the Emanual church, Boston. The 
movement in Chicago was founded up- 
on that of the Emanuel Church, but is 
more conservative, and lays more em- 
phasis upon the religious factor in 
psychotherapeutics. Bishop Fallows 
says in his introduction, "The fun- 
damental principles of purely mental 
treatment, and in the so-called New 
Thought — which is but a restate- 
ment of the old Thought — and in 
Christian Science, are all contained 
within the Christian religion. It is the 
aim of this movement to apply actively 
once more these principles, which never 
should have fallen into disuse. He 
admits the hurried preparation of the 
book, which perhaps explains why it 
does not give any such exhaustive ac- 
count of the work and its underlying 
principles as does Religion and Medi- 
cine. It is, however, interesting as 
showing the demand for such help as 
these church movements are giving, and 
valuable as adding to the history of the 
movement itself. 

In connection with these two books 
showing the work of the modern church 
in the healine of disease it is interest- 
ing to note another book by a minister, 
the Reverend David Bruce Fitzgerald, 
of the Presbyterian church, on The Law 
of Christian Healing. This considers 
the question of what is Christian heal- 
ing, how it may be effected, and what 
should be the attitude of the church 
toward it. The book considers such 
topics as Testis as a miracle worker, 
Testis as a healer. The Origin of a heal- 



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ing suggestion, The Soul as a healing 
agent. Under the last named chapter 
the author explains the influence of 
suggestion by the theory that "the soul 
has a tendency to do whatever it is told 
to do," and that "it is made amenable 
to the law of suggestion for some 
reason arising out of its present con- 
dition. While metaphysical theories 
enter largely into the treatment of the 
subject, the book evidently is the re- 
sult of clear thinking and definite pur- 
pose. It is reverent in its spirit, and 
should be both spiritually and intellect- 
ually stimulating. 



The Riddle of Personality, by H. Ad- 
dington Bruce, is an interesting story 
of the discoveries which have been 
made by scientific students of human 
personality, its nature and possibilities. 
It begins with an account of the incep- 
tion of the movement to make scienti- 
fic inquiry into this subject, the move- 
ment beginning in England at the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge. The work was 
entered upon largely through the ef- 
forts of two men, Prof. Henry Sidg- 
wick and Frederic W. H. Myers, the 
latter the author of the remarkable 
book, Human Personality and Its Sur- 
vival of Bodily Death. After study and 
experiment the small body of earnest 
seekers after the truths which lie at 
the foundation of being, became con- 
vinced that they had secured evidence 
of the existence of such elements of 
natural law as telepathy and hypnotism, 
and kindred psychic phenomena and 
later the little group developed into the 
Society for Psychical Research. About 
half the book is given over to a report 
of the researches of those students 
whose aim has been to obtain, if pos- 
sible, proof of the survival of human 
personality after the death of the body. 
The accounts of the researches, and the 
scientific spirit in which they have been 
carried on, is interesting, whether or 
not the results seem convincing. 

It is of interest to note, in a new book 
of theosophical character, the corres- 
pondence in some points between the 
mysticisms of Hindu philosophy and 
the modern teaching in respect of the 
uower of thought. This book «s The 
Law of the Rhythmic Breath, by Ella 
Adelia Fletcher. Some of the chapter 
headings are the following: 



Happiness Vibrations; The Atmos- 
pheric Currents of Prana ; Vital centers 
for concentration; the Auric Envelope; 
How affected. Among such occult 
studies we find suggestions in harmony 
with the most practical, present day 
teaching; "Nothing is impossible to 
the soul-directed thought; failure is 
through want of faith, of fixedness of 
purpose and aim; success is in direct 
proportion to the answering trust of 
our belief. There is no limit to the 
power of thought." "Notice with care 
that it is not the will but thought which 
must first De employed to control de- 
sire and give it an upward impulse 
The moment thought, which directs and 
controls desire, recognizes its own 
agency, refuses to be swayed by impulse 
and gains the mastery, the will ascends 
to its higher plane." It is claimed for 
this book that it "explains for the first 
time in Western literature, in a clear 
and simple form and with convincing 
proofs, the basic truths of the rhythmic 
breath as taught in ancient Hindu philo- 
sophy; and that "it embodies the most 
complete science and philosophy of life 
ever presented to the Western world." 

The foregoing summary is by no 
means a complete record of the literary 
output of the year on psychological 
topics. Some of the best known names 
among writers on the subject consider- 
ed have not been mentioned, and any 
list of books of the year should include 
Horatio W. Dresser's Philosophy of 
the Spirit, and Physician to the Soul; 
On the Open Road ; a Creed of Whole- 
some Living, by Ralph Waldo Trine; 
Discovery of the Soul, by Floyd B. 
Wilson ; Physical Research and the 
Resurrection, by James H. Hyslop, and 
Personalism, by Professor Browne. It 
seems, however, a noteworthy indica- 
tion of the widespread interest in the 
general subject, that such a variety of 
creditable books has been written, some 
by authors not usually included among 
philosophical writers, considering it 
from different points of view, but alt 
agreeing as to the central principle. 

Another noteworthy fact in connec- 
tion with these books is the recognition 
which all give to Christian Science. 
However decidedly they may reject its 
promises or disagree with its conclus- 
ions, almost without exception the 
writers of the books named give to 
Christian Science the leading place as 



OUR LIBRARY TABLE 



47 



a practical healing agent, and as a reve- 
lation of the power of mind. 
Ella M. McLoney. 



YEARNING 
I een love weeth Mag McCue. 

Ah! so sweeta 'Merican! 
Evra day I see her, too, 
Pass by dees peanutta-stan'. 
Once ees tal me smarta man : 
"Eef a girl ees smile at you, 
Wavin' deesa way her han'. 
Dat'sa mean she love you true." 

Oh, my leetla lady dear, 
Lasta time you passa here 

An' you smile upon me so, 
Eet ees mak' me feel so queer. 

Why ees dat, I lika know? 

I een love weeth Mag McCue, 

Ah! so sweeta 'Merican! 
I would know w'at I should do 

Eef she was Eetalian. 

But ees hard to ondrastan' 
Eef she really love me true 

Wen she smile an' wave her han' 
Lika lasta night she do. 

Oh, my leet a lady dear, 
Nexta time you passa here 

Would you mak' me glad an' proud ? 
Don'ta wave your han, so queer, 

Pleassa, don'ta smile so loud. 

— The Catholic Standard and Times. 



THE GOSPEL OF GOOD CHEER 

People loved him (Robert Louis 
Stevenson), not because he was an ad- 
mirable writer, but because he was a 
cheerful consumptive. He was a suf- 
ferer who for many years increased the 
gaiety of life. Genius alone can do this 
on a large scale ; but everybody can do it 
on a little one. Our safest guide is the 
realization of a hard truth — that we are 
not privileged to share our troubles with 
other people. If we could make up our 
minds to spare our friends all details of 
ill health, of money losses, of domestic 
annoyances, of altercations of committee 
work, oi grievances, provocations, and 
anxieties, we should sin less against the 
world's good humor. It may not be 
given us to add to the treasury of mirth ; 
but there is considerable merit in not 
robbing it.— Agnes Repplier, in Harper's 
Magazine. 



PREMATURE 

By Beth Slater Whitson, in the Janu- 
ary Metropolitan Magazine. 

Winter came early. 
God! I'd scarcely knelt 
Plucking spring flowers 
Ere its chill I felt. 
Then fell the snow-flakes, 
Blinding, thick and fine; 
Winter came early 
In this heart of mine. 



Little, Brown & Company have just 
brought out a new one-volume edition 
of poems and sonnets of the late Louise 
Chandler Moulton, formerly comprised 
in the three books entitled "Swallow 
Fights," "In the Garden of Dreams," 
and "At the Wind's Will." 

Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoffbrd has 
contributed the introduction to the new 
volume. She refers with sympathy and 
feeling to the rare qualities of Mrs. 
Moulton's personality and to the great- 
ness of her character. She mentions 
Mrs. Moulton's position in the world 
of letters and quotes the opinions of the 
highest critics on her poems and son- 
nets. An attractive portrait of Mrs. 

Moulton is used as a frontispiece. 
* * * 

Notwithstanding the fact that the 
publication date of George Wharton 
James' "Through Ramona's Country" 
twice postponed, the interest of the 
public never waned. Messrs. Little, 
Brown & Co. found it necessary to 
print a second edition while the first 
was still in the bindery. 

"Sun and Shadow in Spain" by Maud 
Howe, is another holiday book which 
demanded a second edition almost at 
once. The author, Mrs. John Elliott, 
will not have the pleasure of witness- 
ing the success of her latest volume, as 
she has just sailed on a most unex- 
pected trip to Spain, which land she 
left early last spring. 

DAVID'S WELL 

"In a walled kitchen-garden at the 
entrance of the town was David's Well. 
We felt no assurance, of course, as we 
looked down into it, that this was the 
veritable place. But at all events it 
served to bring back to us one of the 
prettiest bits of romance in the Old 
Testament. When the bold son of 



48 



THE MIDWESTERN 




From "CAMP-FIRES ON DESERT AND LAVA" 
By Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday 



Jesse had become a chieftain of outlaws 
and was bcseiged by the Philistines 
in the stronghold of Adullam, his heart 
grew thirsty for a draught from his 
father's well, whose sweetness he had 
known as a boy. And when his three 
mighty men went up secretly at the 
risk of their lives, and broke through 
the host of their enemies, and brought 
their captain a vessel of this water, "he 
would not drink thereof, but poured it 
out unto Jehovah." 

"There was a division of opinion in 
our party in regard to this act. "It was 
sheer foolishness,' said the Patriarch, 
'to waste anything that has cost so 
much much to get. "What must the 
three mighty men have thought when 
they saw that for which they had risked 
their lives poured out upon the 
ground?' 'Ah, no,' said the Lady. 'It 
was the highest gratitude, because it 
was touched with poetry. Tt was the 
best compliment that David could have 
given to his friends. Some gifts are 
too precious to be received in any 
other way than this.' And in my heart 
T knew that she was right." — Erom 
"Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land," by 
Dr. Henry van Dyke, just published by 
Charles Scribner's Sons. 



r sooth- 



EL CHORRO. 
(Meaning Gushing Water, 
El Chorro, El Chorro, with your 
ing note of sorrow, 
And your murmur of tomorrow 
the purple afterglow, 
With your pulsing, palpitating, vacil 
lating waters waiting 
In the shadows of the mountain, for 
the stag: and for the roe 









El Chorro, El Chorro, e'er the moil 
tain borrow 
Of your dreamy breath of sorro 
every vestige of its thrill, 
Wind thy pathway, all a-quiver, 
through our heartways to the 
river 
Of the irirdescent future where i' 
tumbles down the hill. 

— Erank W. Taylor, Jr 



DES MOINES 



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IOWA— ITS ORIGIN AND PARTICIPANCY 
IN THE CIVIL WAR 



L. F. Andrews 



EVERY brief epitome of the 
origin of what is now the State 
of Iowa, is pertinent, to a series 
of articles to follow in The 
Midwestern showing the part 
taken by the State, her men and wom- 
en in the civil war. 

At the close of the revolutionary war, 
action was taken to divide the vast ter- 
ritory secured under the several trea- 
ties with England, France, Spain, and 
the Indians. In 1787, a compact was 
made by which the Northwestern Ter- 
ritory was created. In 1795, the rapid 
increase of population had rendered 
efficient action of courts impossible, 
and a division of the territory was 
made, by which all that territory north- 
west of the Ohio river, north to Canada 
line, became Indiana territory, and em- 
braced what is now the states of Indi- 
ana, Illinois, Michigan, and that part of 
Minnesota east of the Mississippi. In 
1805, Indiana- territory was divided, 
and the territory of Michigan was set 
off from it. In 1806, another division 
was made, and the territory of Illinois 
was set off. 

In 1829, the territorial legislature of 
Michigan set off all the territory west 
of Lake Michigan from the mouth of 
the Missouri river and east of the Mis- 
sissippi river to the northern boundary 
of Illinois, for judicial purposes, as the 
County of Towa. That was the first 
official act of legislation in which the 
word "Iowa" occurs. 

In 1803, congress set apart the terri- 
tory west of the Mississippi, which had 
been ceded to the United States and 
known as the Louisiana Purchase, ex 
cept Texas, to be known as the District 
of Louisiana, and placed it under the 
jurisdiction of the then Territory of 
Indiana. It embraced all the terri- 
tory west of the Mississippi to the 
Pacific ocean, and north to the British 



possessions. In 1805, it was organized 
as the Territory of Louisiana, and giv- 
en a. government of its own. In 1812 
the Territory of Louisiana was divided, 
and the northern half became the Ter- 
ritory of Missouri. In 1821, the State 
of Missouri was admitted into the 
Union with fixed boundaries, the 
northern boundary line being so fixed 
as to leave a vast domain north of it, 
embracing what is now Iowa and Min- 
nesota without any government at all, 
except such as the settlers, who had 
come in and located along the west 
bank of the Mississippi. There were 
no courts, no government officers, and 
no laws. Congress seems to have over- 
looked or forgotten the territory until 
1834, when its attention was aroused 
by an incident which occurred in May 
of that year, in what is now Dubuque 
county. Patrick O'Connor shot and 
killed George O'Keafe. Both were lead 
miners. The killing was done without 
provocation. O'Conner was placed in 
confinement, and when asked why he 
did the shooting, replied : "That is my 
business." The friends of O'Keafe 
were determined to hang O'Connor at 
once, but wise counsel prevailed, and 
he was given the chance of a trial. Ap- 
plication was made at the nearest 
court, at Galena, for action, to which 
reply was made that it had no jurisdic- 
tion west of the Mississippi. The set- 
tlers then decided to be a law unto 
themselves. A jury was selected, a 
trial had, a verdict was rendered ot 
murder in the first degree, and the pen- 
alty fixed at death by hanging, at 1 
o'clock. June 20th. O'Conner's attor- 
ney at once applied to the governor of 
Missouri for a pardon. The governor 
replied that he had no jurisdiction. 
Application was then made to Presi- 
dent Jackson, who replied he had 110 
power to act as the laws of the United 



50 



THE MIDWESTERN 



States had not been extended over that 
territory; that he could not interfere. 
He suggested that pardoning power 
vested only in those who had formed 
the court. On the day fixed O'Conner 
was hanged. 

The incident aroused the attention 
of legislative bodies, and in 1834, the 
territorial legislature of Michigan 
passed an act by which the territory 
west of the Mississippi to the Pacific 
ocean and north of Missouri, was di- 
vided into two parts by a line drawn 
due west from the lower end of Rock 
Island to the Missouri river. All north 
of the line was to constitute the County 
of Dubuque; all south of it the County 
if Demoine. It was further provided 
that all the laws in force in the "Coun- 
ty of Iowa" (Act of 1829), should be 
in force in the counties of Dubuque and 
Demoine for judicial purposes. 

In 1836 the territory which now em- 
braces Iowa, Minnesota and Wiscon- 
sin, was detached from Michigan, and 
organized as Wisconsin Territory. The 
two counties of Dubuque and Demoine 
were known as Western Wisconsin. 
In June, 1836, congress divided Wis- 
consin Territory, and the two counties 
of Dubuque and Demoine became the 
Territory of Iowa. 

In 1844, the population of the Terri- 
tory had so increased, the people be- 
gan to desire a state organization. In 
October of that year, a Constitutional 
Convention was held at Iowa City, 
which formed a constitution defining 
the boundaries of the state, those on 
the east, west and south as they now 
are, but the northern boundary cut off 
the northwest corner. Congress re- 
jected that constitution, and suggested 
a new western boundary line from 
north to south, about forty miles west 
of Des Moines, thus cutting off the 
entire Missouri Slope, but approved the 
other portions of the constitution. 
This, the people at the August election 
in 1845, rejected. In May, 1846, an- 



other convention considered the boun- 
dary lines, fixed them as they are today, 
and approved the remainder of the con- 
stitution of 1844, and congress ap- 
proved it. At the August election in 
1846 it was approved by the people, 
and December 28th, Iowa was admitted 
to the Union. 

During the forty-three years, from 
the Louisiana Purchase to 1833, t ne 
Indians had exclusive control of the 
territory of what is now Iowa, for thir- 
ty years, and partial control for three 
years. Not a quarter section of land 
had been offered for sale by the govern- 
ment up to 1833, though thousands of 
settlers had come in and made claims 
of land for homes, to wait the action of 
congress. The entire territory of Iowa 
was in undisputed possession of the 
Indians. In that year, the first treaty 
with the Sauk and Fox Indians was 
made, by which settlers were permit- 
ted to come in and take land, first at 
Dubuque, then at Burlington in 1834; 
at Ft. Madison in 1835; at Davenport 
in 1836. The cessions under these 
treaties were confined to eastern por- 
tions of the territory. In 1836 more ter- 
ritory was ceded westward, and in 
1842, all the remaining lands, but the 
Indians could remain in the eastern 
portion until April, 1843, when they 
removed to the reservation around 
Fort Des Moines, where they remained 
until October 10, 1845, when they re- 
moved to Kansas, and the last vestige 
of Indian title to land in Iowa disap- 
peared. 

During those years immigration to 
the state was immense. In 1836, the 
population was 10,531 ; in 1840, 43,012; 
in 1850, 192,214; in i860, 674,973. 
which brings it down to the beginning 
of the civil war period. The part the 
state, her men and women took during 
the greatest contest the world has 
known, will be the subject of future 
papers, during the year. 



"FAME IS A FOOD 

Fame is a food that dead men eat — 
I have no stomach for such meat. 
In little light and narrow room, 
They eat it in the silent tomb, 
With no kind voice of comrade near 
To bid the banquet be of cheer. 



THAT DEAD MEN EAT" 

But Friendship is a nobler thing— 
Of Friendship it is good to sing. 
For truly, when a man shall end, 
He lives in memory of his friend, 
Who doth his better part recall, 
And of his faults make funeral. 

— Austin Dobson. 




CLARENCE DEETS 

Candidate for re-election to the office of Secretary -Treasurer of the 
I. S. T. M. A. on Jan. 16, 1909 



A candidate fur re election to the po- 
sition of secretary of the I. S. '1'. M. A. 
is Mr. Clarence Deets, who has filled 
the office with the greatest success 
since the death of 1". ]•'.. Haley in 1905. 
At that time the association had about 
23,000 members and now has over 
31.000. The financial condition is fine, 
about $150,000 in the treasury at the 
present time. The temperament of 

membership in general was never more 
harmonious than now. Mr. Dccts is 
especially well titled for his position, 
having been a member of the associa- 



tion since 1888 and was a director for 
some years before his election to the 
secretaryship. His wide acquaintance 
with business men has been a valuable 
asset for the association, and Mr. 
Deets himself is an ideal secretary, of 
warm human sympathies, good busi- 
ness judgment, faithful to his duties 
and a man to be both loved and trusted 
by other men. I lis many friends are 
lending him a hearty support in the 
contest and predict for him a great 
victc try. 



52 



THE MIDWESTERN 





A. W. RADER 

Candidate for the Office of Secretary -Treasurer 
of the I. S. T. M. A on Jan. 16 

A. \V. Rader, popular member of the 
I. S. T. M. A., will in all probability be 
elected secretary and treasurer of the 
association at the annual meeting Janu- 
ary 16th. Mr. Rader is the oldest 
wholesale drug salesman traveling out 
of Des Moines. Two years ago he made 
a remarkable race for the above office, 
surpassing even his most sanguine op- 
position. Mr. Rader has a host of 
friends who feel that on account of the 
differences existing at the present in 
the association he is the only logical 
candidate for the office. I lis election 
is sure to bring peace in the ranks of 
the I. S. T. M. A., and for tbis reason 
as well as on the ground of personal 
merit, is much to be desired. 



THE JANUARY METROPOLITAN 
"The Key t<> World Control," in the 
January number <>f the Metropolitan 
Magazine, is a startling article consid- 
ering the airship as a Factor in the fu- 
ture civilization of the world. It tells 
of the secret experiments being made 



by the united States government and 
the energies being quietly expended by 
other nations to gain the supremacy of 
the air. "Mysteries for the Stout and 
the Thin." by Eustace Miles, is an in- 
teresting article on the vagaries of 
weight, and contains many valuable 
suggestions for those who are nut sat- 
isfied with their physical appearance. 
"The Love Letters of George Sand and 
Alfred De Musset" are continued, the 
French novelist's strange life in Venice 
being described by her own pen. 
Charles H. Caffin has a critical paper 
on the Art of Lionello Balestrieri. 
Among the good stories published in 
this holiday number might be men- 
tioned "The Run of the White Peli- 
can," by Charles Frederick Holder; "A 
Lieutenant to Cupid," by E. J. Rath; 
"The M issing Daughter of Chee Tong" 
by Robert A. Iiachmann; "A Christ- 
mas Theft." by r Egerton R. Williams, 
Jr. ; "The One Great Love," by Robert 
Alexander Wason, and "The Wolf," by 
Will Gasre Carev. 






Her 



IN HER GARDEN 

By Charlotte Becker, in the January 
Metropolitan Magazine 

garden blooms as it was wont to 
bloom 
Those many springs, 
And still amid the larkspur and the 
broom 
The linnet sings. 

But she will never pass this way again 

When springtides stir, 
To comfort through the sunshine or 
the rain 

Our grief for her. 

And yet her presence seems so warm 
and near 
This quiet place, 
That we who loved her feel less lonely 
here 
A little space. 






As if there brooded on each budding 

Hi >wer 

I I er tenderness, 
As if her spirit o'er each bird-filled 
bower 

Rent down to bless. 




ED. J. CONCANNON 

Candidate for position of Secretary-Treasurer of I. S. T. M. A. 



\ formidable candidate for the office 
of Secretary-treasurer of the I. S. T. M. 
A., is Ed. J. Concannon, well known 
and with lots of friends inside and OUt- 
lide of the fraternity, who wish for him 
a signal victory in the race he is now 
making. 

Mr. Concannon has traveled for fif- 
teen yean for the Warfield-Pratt-How- 

'" Co. Prior to that he was on the 
road for Kellogg & Birge Co.. of Keo- 

1 ■■UK. His territory lias always been in 
[( iwa. 

Mr. ( oncannon is a native fowan, 

bora and reared in Keokuk. His home 

in Des Moines is at <)0i Twenty-first 

•'reel, having been a resident of Des 



Moines for fifteen years and closely 
identified with all the advance move- 
ments of the city. 

His many fine personal traits, devo- 
tion to his friends, rare business ability, 
integrity of purpose and exceptional 
loyalty to the I. S. T. M. A. have made 
Mr. Concannon a favorite candidate for 
the high honors he seeks. 

If elected, Mr. tdncannon's friends 
are assured that he will devote himself 
10 the advancement of the interests of 
the 1. S. 'P. M. A. in every way possible. 
We predict lor him an overwhelming 
majority at the election on January 16, 
.909. 




J. G. ROUNDS 

President of the Citizens National Bank. Mr. Rounds is the Senior Bank 
President in Des Moine9 



OUR DES MOINES BANK PRESIDENTS 



It has been proved again and again 
that the business men of Des Moines 
rank with the best the world over. And 
among these men in whom we have a 
great pride, our bankers hold a high 
place in the esteem and confidence of 
the general public. There may be in- 
stances where "there's nothing in a 
name." But the names of bankers cer- 
tainly mean much to a community, for 
they are representative of the men they 



designate. Especially is this the case 

with the names of the presidents Of 
banks. Our Des Moines bank presi- 
dents are men who stand without a 
peer as men of business integrity, as 
progressive citizens and capable finan- 
ciers. Without exception, they are 
long-time residents of the city and state 
and most of them have won their WSJ 
unaided to their responsible position?. 
The banks of a city or state must he 




JAMES WATT 
President of the German Savings Bank 



institutions commanding the absolute 
confidence of the people. In order that 
they should do this, they must be head 
ed by the right men. Because this has 
been the case in Des Moines, failures 
have been unknown here, and even in 
hard times, things have moved along as 
usual, because the people had a just 



confidence in the hanks. It is with 
much pleasure and a justifiable pride 
that we present the pictures this month 
of the presidents of the leading finan- 
cial institutions in Des Moines. They 
are men of hi 
places with honor. 



1 position, filling their 




G. D. ELLYSON 

President of the Marquardt Savings Bank 

BE READY 



A great many people make the mis- 
take of deferring preparation along cer- 
tain lines until in the regular course of 
events they find themselves face to 
face with the absolute necessity of 
possessing certain means of ability. 

"Fortune knocks once at every man's 
door." But Dame Fortune does not 
go around armed with an axe, breaking 
down doors in order to reach the ob- 
ject of her interest. He who has not 
sufficient foresight to unbolt the doof 
must not complain if the fickle goddess 
passes on and bestows her Favors upon 
more enterprising and deserving appli- 
cants. 

"Perhaps the chance will come. 1 
will study and get ready for it," said 
Abraham Lincoln when acquaintances 
tried to discourage his efforts and di 
vert his interest from his books. The 
chance did come, and it placed the un- 



in the president's 



gainly rail-splitter 
chair. 

All who have read that famous book, 
"Ben Hur," will recall that it was ser- 
vice in the galleys which enabled Ben 
Hur to develop that tremendous 
strength displayed in guiding his four 
to victory in the thrilling chariot race. 

"Fire when you are ready, Captain 
Gridlev," were' the words of Admiral 
Dewey on that eventful first of May 
morning when he met and destroyed 
the Spanish fleet. But Dewey knew 
that Gridley was ready. Had he felt 
the slightest doubt on that point the 
honor of firing the first gun would have 
fallen to another. 

If you are ambitious to succeed, it 
you aspire to positions of greater trust, 
greater influence and greater wealth, 
be ready. Start saving your mone 
n i\y ; or save more. 





W. B. MARTIN 
President of the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank 



<,' (| Sample '■iS^i'-j 








WE SHOW HEREWITH (reduced in size), a paper combination designed and devised by All. 
" A "OE. Cashier of the Iowa Trust and Savin* Hank of East Des Moines. 

,,. "his form lias liecome very popular with all people who travel Hesiiles being a Traveler's 
i neck, oasnable without identitloatlon, it also comliines with this feature ihe additional features of a 
' " lc »g" and New York Draft anil an interest tiearini; Certificate of Deposit. 




ARTHUR REYNOLDS 
President of the Des Moines National Bank 



GETTING THE DIVIDENDS 



Young Winston with a thrifty joy 

Invested money in his boy. 

He bought him books, the very best, 

And read them o'er with him with zest. 

He sent him off to college though 

It brought his balance very low. 

He skimped again and bade him roam 

In countries far away from home. 

Then brought him home, well learned, 

well bred, 
And bade him work and earn his bread. 



Young Winston now is growing gra> 
His son he watches every day, 
Grow greater in a growing land, 
And high among the leaders stand. 
He sees him rise, and always glad, 
Hail smilingly his good old dad. 
He plays with children at his knee- 
Grandfather of a sturdy three, 
And thus, with joy that never ends 
He dailv draws his dividends. 




HOMER A. MILLER 

President of the low a Na'i i.a! Bank 



IOWA NATIONAL HANK 

!)KS MOINKS. IOWA 



COMPTROLLER'S CALL 
RESOURCES 

Loam and discounts $5,205,116.17 

OTardrafti 11,489.62 

U. B. and other bondi 764,819^00 

Furniture nnd fixtures 18,000.00 

OMs. and due from bunks.... 1,828,181.87 



$7,871,105.96 

Largest National Bank in Iowa 



At the Close of Business No». 27, 1908 

LIABILITIES. 
Capital sto.-k $i,ooo,ono.oo 

Surplus 75,000.00 

Profits 57,508.03 

CirculattoD 255,000.00 

I livid, iids Unpaid 105.00 

Depoafta 6,483,432.93 



$7,871,105.96 

Capital $1,000,000 00 



Homer A. Miller, Preaidenl 

g fasadv, Yiee President II T. Blackburn, Cashier 

II. s. Butler, Vice I'rcsidenl (I. A. Nelson, Assistant Cashier 



DUS MOINKS SAVINGS HANK 

Capital and Surplus. $220,000. Deposits, $2,600,000. 

WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON DEPOSITS 
IIBEOTORS 

loTa s Caaadjr, Viet President 

(1. M. Ilip V. P li. M. City Ry. Co. 



J. H. Ocrwnls, President ,i. ir. Oewi 

K. 0. Pinl.tMii... President Croon llav l.uni 

her Co. 
L. Harbaoh, President I,. Harbach Sons c, 
■'■ <■ BarrjhUJ, Attorney 

H. S. Butler, Viee President 



Homer A. Miller. President 

H T Blackburn, Caahler 

<'. C. Prnulv. Pros.. C. 0, Prout.v Oo, 

Edw. A Temple, Pies. Hankers L. A. 




R. A. CRAWFORD 
President of the Valley National Bank 



A NOTABLE INVENTION 



To Mr. A. O. Hauge, cashier of the 
Iowa Trust and Savings Bank, belongs 
the distinction of inventing a new form 
of commercial paper which will sim- 
plify business transactions when gen- 
erally adopted. It combines seven dif- 
ferent forms in one and is printed in 
$10, $25, $50, $10 and $5.00 amounts. 
It is of the ordinary size of paper 
money. The following forms are com- 
bined in the new instrument: Time 
certificate of deposit, bank mon- 
ey or check, certified personal 



check and a letter of credit. After mak- 
ing deposit in the bank the depositor 
is handed one of the new notes, at the 
top of which he signs his name before 
leaving the bank. This certifies that he 
has placed so much in the bank, and 
credit for that amount is given by the 
cashier. When he wishes to cash the 
note anywhere all that is necessary is 
to sign his name at the bottom of the 
note.' The similarity of the two signa- 
tures identifies him and docs away with 
finding someone to stand for him at the 




C. T. COLE, Jr. 
Vice President of the Valley National Bank. 




German Savings Bank 

Dcs IDoincs 
COMMERCIAL BANKING 

Capital and Surplus $110,000.00 

JAMES WATT, President JFSSE 0. WELLS, Vice-President J. C. O0ONNELL 

Four per cent Interest Paid in Savings Department. 








CHARLES H. MARTIN 
President of the People's Savings Bank 



bank, which is often almost impossible 
when in a strange town. Mr. Haugc 
provides for interest at the rate of 4 
per cent for a period of three years. 
On the margin of the note is the inter- 
est computed out for that length of 
time, so that the depositor is acquaint- 
ed at all times with the amount of 
interest that is due on his deposit. The 
new instrument also is a draff payable 
on either a Chicago or New York hank. 
If a note should he lust it can he re- 
ported at the bank and an ither issued 



in its place. Each note has a number 
( m it, removing the possibility oi it ever 
being cashed if mice lost. If the note 
were stolen it would be impossible to 
cash it any place, as even the cleverest 
penman could not imitate the signature 
at the top before the eyes of the cash- 
ier. 

The unique feature 1 >f this paper, 
aside from its business value, is that 
one has his money in his pocket, as the 
note is as good as a bank note, and i c 
drawing interest at the same time. 




'(gmKtimry Swiiimgp IBsiirnlk 



CLAPP BLOCK. COR. FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS 

DES MOINES. IOWA 



CAPITAL 



$100,000.00 



An Old Man, still poor, can never forget how easily 
he could have saved a Thousand when he was young. 

Decide TODAY that you WILL commence building a Bank Account in the 
Century Saving* Bank. 




COL. H. B. HEDGE 
President of the Central State Bank 



BEGIN IT RIGHT 

The business man who takes his 
lunch down town sin mid not forget 
that he owes it to himself and to others 
to keep well. In order to do this, prop- 
er food, properly cooked, is an essen- 
tial. The majority of the down-town 
business men know the Boston Lunch. 
Men of all classes eat there daily. The 
menu includes about everything that 
could be served at a lunch counter. 
Those who read this should, if not 
acquainted, begin the new year right, 
by taking lunch at this well known 
place. 



Security Loan and 
Trust Company 

318 Fifth St. 

Safety 
Deposit 

Vaults 

DES MOINES, : IOWA 




H. B. WYMAN 
President of the Mechanics Savings Bank 



THE MECHA NICS' SAVINGS BANft 

desires the accounts of all good firms and individuals, particular- 
ly soliciting the checking accounts of ambitious young men, and 
assuring that the courteous and impartial attention given will 
make the business acquaintance thus formed worth continuing 
foi years to come. 



H. D. WYMAN. P r«-». 



G E. Mac IIINNON, Viie-Pres. 



JNO. /\. ELLIOTT, C.^hier 




H. C HANSEN 

President ot the Home Savings Bank 




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' Id Account with 

Home Savings Bank 

DCS MOINES. IOWA. 
Comer Ea*t Sixth sod Locust Sirwtt. 




THE BOOK MUST BE PRESENTED 
;V tQ WITHDRAW ANY MONEY 



The Savings Bank system which we have adapted is the most novel 
and up-to-date plan of accumulating money yet devised. By call- 
ing at the bank you can get one of these Home Banks. They will 
help you to save and the use of it costs you nothing. A pass book 
will be furnished you to record your savings. 



We pay 4 
per cent 
interest and 
credit same 
to your 
account 
January 1st 
and July 1st 

You have 
the bank 




Jr 



We have 
the key 



No bank in the city has done more to encourage thrift and econ- 
omy than the Home Savings Bank through its offer to supply you 
with this modern method of S3ving. 



SAVE A LITTLE BIT 

HercV a motto, just your fit. 

Save a little bit. 
When you think you've trouble hit. 

Save a little bit. 
Look misfortunes in the face, 
Crave the beldam's rude grimace; 
Ten to one 'twill yield its place 
If you have the wit and grit 

just to save a little bit. 

Cherish this as sacred writ, 

Save a little bit. 
Keep it with you — sample it, 

Save a little bit. 
Little ills will sure betide you, 
Little wants may sit beside you. 
Men may knock and fame deride you, 
I'nt you'll mind them not a bit 

If vou save a little bit. 




HENRY WAGNER 
President of the Capital City Savings Bank 






STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE 

People's Savings Bank 

AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, NOVEMBER 23, 1908 
AUDITOR'S CALL 



RESOURCES 
Loans and Discounts $1,678,054.86 
Real Estate 3,544.51 

Furniture and Fixtures 7,500.00 

Overdrafts 5.309 64 

Cash on hand and exchange 443.886.89 



$2,138,295.90 



LIABILITIES 



Capital stock 
Surplus 
Other profits 
Deposits 



$ 100,000.00 

100,000.00 

12,781.37 

1,925.514.53 

$2,138,295.90 



OFFICERS: 

C H. MARTIN, Pres. T. f. fLYNN, V-Pres. f. P. FLYNN, Cashier E. A. SLININGER, Asst. Cashier 

DIRECTORS: 

0. It. PERKINS C. C. EOOMIS J. A. GARVER DR. D. W. SM0USE H. C. WAEEACE E. SHEUERMAN 
T. E. EEYNN C. El. MARTIN E. P. ElYNN 



is assured those who acquire the Savings 
Bank habit early. Begin l l >09 right. 

22 TOarqitardi Satrings 13ank 



West Fifth and Locust Street 



Do General Banking and pay 4 per cent Interest on Savings 
Deposits. Write for Free Booklet "M" on Banking by Mail. 



G. D. ELIYSON 

President 



D. f. WITTER 

Vice-President 



J. H. HOGAN 
Cashier 



Gas Reflexoliers 




Surpass all other lights 

in 

Brilliancy 

Economy 
and 

Simplicity . . 



DES MOINES GAS COMPANY 

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EPTICISM COSTS $2,460 



That's the price paid by Mrs. Anna 
Ludwig, No. 8737 Commercial Ave., 
South Chicago. Mrs. Ludwig had no 
faith in banks, so she devised various 
hiding places for her money. One day 
recently she hid her bank roll, amount- 
ing to $2,460, in the pillow of her 
baby's carriage. Later in the day two 
men who were boarding at the Ludwig 
home volunteered to take the baby <>ut 
for a ride. Mrs. Ludwig either forgot 
about the hidden treasure or she 
thought she would not be discovered. 
Anyway, the men were allowed to push 
the buggy leisurely down the street 
and out 1 if sight. 

An hour nr so passed without the re- 
turn of the boarders or the baby, so 
Mrs. Ludwig started an investigation. 
The baby was found, together with the 
buggy, but the thoughtful boarders 
were gone. Likewise the $2,460. 

Put in it your trust in secret hiding 
places, but put your money in the 
bank. 




ALFRED HAMMER 
President Valley Savings Bank 




The Valley National Bank l\ 



Corner Walnut and Fourth Sts. 



OPEN a bank account with us. We will gladly give you the help you 
want to making the start and furnish you with a check book so you 
can pay your bills bv check— thus having a competent receipt. You will 
be surprised how rapidly you will acquire a good bank account 



Jin account with 



The Valley Savings Bank 

(Under same management) 

Will earn you 4 per cent interest. 



Combined Capital 
Profits 
Deposits 



$ 350,000.00 
150,000.00 

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?■ 1?" w?? g3 ' P J res -l? ent „ " J - G - Olmsted, Vice-Pres. 

J. D. Whisenand, Vtce-Pres. Fred S. Bisser, Cashier 

Central State Bank 

215-217 Fifth St. 

Capital Stock - - ■ ■ $ 50,000.00 

Surplus and Profits ..... 55,000.00 

Deposits ...... 1,030,000.00 

DIRECTORS 
J. G. Olmsted H. B. Hedge Ohas. R. Chase H. A. Elliott 

J. W. Hill R. T. Wellslager J. G. . Berryhill 

R. Dempster J. D. Whisenand W. H. Langan 



Capital City State Bank 

BANK BUILDING : ■ East Fifth and Locust Street . : DES MOINES, IOWA 



OFFICERS 
HENRY WAGNER, President J. A McKINNEY, Cashier 

J. A. T. HULL, Vice-President D. J. VAN L1EW, Asst. Cashier 

If you are looking about for the services of an institution well equipped to 
transact all branches of legitimate banking this bank solicits your business, 
promising liberal treatment and courteous consideration. 
V — 



IF 

YOU appreciate having your business hand- 
led in an intelligent, conscientious manner 

THE DES MOINES NATIONAL BANK 

of 

Des Moines, Iowa 

INVITES a share of the same and offers a help- 
ful banking service, unsurpassed in this field 

Resources (over) $4,500,000.00 
Officers: 

Arthur Reynolds, President 

J. H. Blair, Vice-President A. J. Zwart, Cashier 

C. A. Barr, Ass't. Cashier 



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Capital. ?20o,ooo 



UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY 

Surplus and Profit, ^140,000 



dittsens Iftational Bank 



of 

2>cs nootnes, Iowa 



R. P.. ROUNDS, President 

S. A. MERRILL, Vice-President 



GEO. E. PEARSALL. Cashier 
\VM. W. MAISH, As»t. Cashier 



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PREVENT DISEASE 

The Des Moines public arc awaken- 
ing to the necessity for a pure milk sup- 
ply. This is evidenced by the demand 
for pasteurized milk and cream, which 
is ten times as great as a year ago. This 
is all due to the education inaugurated 
and carried on by the Iowa Dairy Com- 
pany, whose products stood the sever- 
est tests made by the Chicago health 
authorities in testing milk furnished by 
Iowa dairies. Many diseases may he 
transmitted by impure milk; among 
them, the dread tuberculosis. The Iowa 
Dairy Company by their method of pas- 
teurization absolutely prevent all Possi- 
bility of transmitting germs of anv sort. 
Their wagons traverse every section of 
Des Moines, and all first-class grocers 
keep their milk and cream. 



IT CONSTANTLY IMPROVES 

The menu at the Boston Lunch is the 
most attractive in Des Moines. Manv 
new dishes have been added during the 
past six months and all of them are appe- 
tizing and delicious. The breakfast dish 
of waffles, fresh butter and Vermont 
maple syrup has proved unusually pop- 
ular. The hot luncheon dishes are in the 
greatest demand. This varied and de- 
licious menu has been the means of 
greatly increasing the patronage of the 
Boston Lunch. The coffee continues to 
he the best in town. Mr. J. H. Welsh is 
certainly to be congratulated upon his 
fine success 




MARTIN BIERWORTHS CHRIST- 
MAS WISH 
'Christmas bells, don't care for them 

Want something that goes 
An automobile painted red. 

One worked with your toes; 
Want a bicycle and a sled, 

Just w ant them, want those : 
Santa'll come when we're in bed, 
Mamma says, she knows." 



71 




DR. M. L. BARTLETT 
President of the Des Moines Musical College 



A POPULAR MUSIC SCHOOL 



Some months since Des Moines Mus- 
ical College announced the engagement 
of Frank Olin Thompson as director of 
their piano department. Since that 
time Mr. Thompson lias royally proved 
himself worthy of his reputation as a 
teacher, pianist and cultured gentle- 
man. Mr. Thompson has had the 
finest advantages for study, lie was 



four years with Mr. Hans Bruening at 
the Wisconsin College of Music and 
upon graduating, went to Berlin, Ger- 
many, to complete his studies with 
Prof. Ilcinrich Barth, who showed a 
great interest in the young American, 
lie remained in Europe three years, at 
the end of which time he accepted 
position as instructor in piano and ha 



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A POPULAR MUSIC SCHOOL 




73 



FRANK OLIN THOMPSON 

Of the Des Moines Musical College Faculty 



mony ;it the Wisconsin College of 
Music. While acting in this capacity 
he received and accepted a call from 
Dr. Bartlett to come to the Des Moines 
Musical College. Mr. Thompson has 
appeared in recital in the larger cities 
"i Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, always 
meeting with signal success. 1 lis stand- 
ard is high, lie believes in playing 
only works of an elevating character 
and his clitics have been kind enough 

to give linn credit for it. 

He is deeply interested in his work 
at the college, and is a most popular 
teacher. 

^ The many friends of Miss Lillian 
Stetson were delighted with her return 

to 1 >es Moines as a member of the I >es 

Moine S Musical College faculty. Miss 

Stetson is a pianist of rare attainments. 

Misses Sylvia M. Garrison and Geor 

Walker are well known in musi- 



cal circles for their fine qualifications 
as musicians and their names on the 
faculty mean a great deal for the 
sch< » il. 

Mrs. Gerhardt-Downing is a general 
favorite in the city, because of her 
beautiful contralto voice, which has 
been heard on many public occasions. 
Mrs. Downing has been a most suc- 
cessful teacher. 

Of Dr. Bartlett it is really needless 
to speak. All Des Moines and Towa 
music lovers as well as all good people, 
know and love him, H"e has long led 
music matters in Des Moines. He has 
gone through the experiences of a pio- 
neer in this community — and his judg- 
ment is accepted as final along all lines 
in which he is interested. 

Dr. Bartlett is of the big and splen- 
did type physically and mentally. He 
is an enthusiast and an optimist of the 



74 



THE MIDWESTERN 




FREDERICKA GERHARDT-DOWN1NG | \ 

highest type. lie has accomplished 
things that would have been impossible 
to any other musician in Iowa. When 
the public have seemed unappreciative, 
he has attempted and successfully car- 
ried out even greater schemes calcu- 
lated to educate and uplift both indi- 
vidual and public. Much of the best 
music ever heard in the city and state 
has come to us through Dr. Bartlett. 
Music lovers all over the countrv re- 
vere and honor him for the work he has 
accomplished here in Iowa. The mag- 
nificent testimonial concert recently 
given for him here was surely some- 
thing that would make a man's heart 
beat high and his eves grow dim, for 
it was the most beautiful expression of 
the esteem in which he is held by those 
who know and love him. 

His work as head of the Des Moines 
Musical College has given him even 
greater opportunity for giving an up- 
lift to the musical life of the city. His 
successful pupils are scattered all over 
the country. The winter term of the 
school starts nut under most favorable 
auspices. 



Lawrence Drug Co. 

Cor. Sixth and Locust Sts 
Everything in the T>rug Line 

Prescriptions Carefully Filled 



HOME BUILDING 

A GREAT WALL PAPER AND 

DECORATING HOUSE FOR 

DES MOINES 

FEW people have realized the 
value of a great dry goods 
house, china store, clothing 
store, or wall paper and decor- 
ating house to a city the size of 
Des Moines. It enables up-to-date 
people to have things in keeping with 
their tastes without spending a great 
deal of time and money going to the 
larger cities. 

George A. Boody, of Boody-Holland 
&: New, who have been located at 608- 
610 Locust street for the past twenty- 
seven years, a few days ago purchased 
the Essex property, 415-417 Sixth av- 
enue. A large force of men are now 
at work on this building, re-inforcing it 
throughi nit for heavy stocks and mak- 
ing it modern in every way, extending 
a building on the rear, putting in a new 
heating plant, modern fronts and a 
thoroughly metropolitan retail decora- 
tive store on the first floor. This will 
be the most complete and largest exclu- 
sive wall paper, paint, window glass and 
mirror house in the United States, hav- 
ing a floor space of over 22,000 feet in 
the six floors. This will mean no one 
will need to leave Des Moines for any- 
thing in this line. 

We understand from $40,000 to $50.- 
000 was paid for this property, being a 
lot 45x132 feet facing west on Sixth 
avenue, between Locust and Grand, 
having a seven story building with a 
fine cement basement. The major por- 
tion of it will be used by Boodv-Hol- 
land & New's retail and wholesale bus- 
iness. This is considered by down- 
town business men a fine property and 
one of the best locations. The leading 
architects and builders of the city of 
Des Moines pronounce it one of the 
best built buildings in the city. 

George A. Boody. president and 
manager of Boody-IIolland & New, has 
the ripest experience in the decorating 
line, having been in the concern for 
seventeen vcars and has developed the 
business from a small retail business 
with the Holland & New people until 
it is already recognized to be the larg- 
est house of its kind wast of Chicago. 



HOME-BUILDING 



75 



Color harmony and color effect, the re- 
lation of colors in decorations to sur- 
rounding objects has been been the 
study for years of the retail end of this 
business. Mr. Boody has written a 
great many articles on this subject as 
well as a series of articles for the Mid- 
western. 

This company maintains headquar- 
ters in New York and are exclusive dis- 
tributors for four of the best factories 
in the United States and three in Eu- 
rope. The marvelous growth of the 
decorating end of this business as well 
as the house painting has been largely 
due to what is known as the "Boody 
Merit Labor System." This system re- 
quires each workman to stand on his 
merits and he is promoted accordingly. 

The Midwestern has been a booster 
since its inception and with the present 
booster spirit in Des Moines The Mid- 
western feels every citizen booster who 
wants to see Des Moines expand, prop- 
erty value enhance and a really metro- 
politan city in every way should make 
it a special point to patronize these ex- 
panding retail houses and thereby real- 
ly boost. Boody-Holland & New will 
move about February ist and in order 
to lighten the burden of moving as 
much as possible by January ist they 
have decided to unload 90,000 rolls of 
fine wall paper at 2, 3, 4 and 5 cents a 
roll, values of these papers are from 10 
to 30 cents a roll. 



BUILD NOW 

For five years the price of labor, of 
building material, and of all the inci- 
dentals has been very high. The man 
who had saved money to build a home 
five years ago, found when he came 
to draw his plans, that the original 
estimate was far too low. He either 
modified them or postponed building. 
Thus throughout the country, many 
thousands of peonle are waiting: for 
good building conditions. Those con- 
ditions seem now to have come. 

The cost of material today is fully 
20 per cent lower than it was a year 
?K°- There is no wholesale reduction 
in the cost of labor, but the supoly in 
the building trades far outruns the de- 
mand. Thousands of bricklayers, ma- 



sons, and carpenters are out of work ; 
and many more are working at uncon- 
genial tasks. The builder can there- 
fore get a better day's work out of his 
men than he has been able to get in 
many years. 

And this state of things has brought 
relief from the tyranny of the unions. 
In the eastern states, in particular, the 
old danger of having work held by 
clashes between unions, by arbitrary 
rulings by union leaders, and by extra- 
ordinary orders by union bosses, was 
one of the most powerful deterrents 
to building. But today carpenters, 
builders, painters and decorators alike 
show a more tractable disposition than 
they showed a year ago. 

The next most fruitful former cause 
of delay, the failure of railroads to de- 
liver materials on time, is now re- 
moved, certainly for some time. The 
railroads are eager for freight, and are 
prompt. 

Again, very many men who build 
homes borrow money on mortgages ; 
and, unless all signs fail, this autumn 
and winter will be a period of "easy 
money." The banks and savings insti- 
tutions are rich in funds. Since the 
early summer they ceased to demand 6 
per cent on first-class loans secured by 
homes in suburban places around New 
York. Loans that matured in August, 
on good suburban property in New Jer- 
sey were readily renewed at 5 per cent, 
and in some- instances, at least, at 4^ 
per cent. The average home-builder 
can get money on a first mortgage, 
drawn to conform to the savings bank 
demands, or the demands of trustees of 
estates and other conservative invest- 
ors ; and he ought not to pay more than 
5 per cent. 

On the whole, therefore, the price of 
material, the supply and the quality of 
labor, the mental attitude of men, the 
efficiency of the whole machinery of 
building, and the relative cheapness 
and "ease" of monev warrant the con- 
clusion that more conditions are now 
favorable to building than at any recent 
time. And some of these conditions, at 
least, will become less favorable with 
the returning rush of prosperity, when- 
ever it comes. 




MRS. GRACE JONES JACKSON 
Who has just acc-pted a position on the faculty of Drake Conservatory of Music 






MRS. GRACE JONES-JACKSON 



The news that Mrs. Grace Jones- 
Jackson is to have a place in the faculty 
of Drake Musical Conservatory was 
greeted with pleasure by her many 
friends in Des Moines and Iowa when 
the announcement was made last week. 
Since her return from European study 
and travel, Mrs. Jackson has sung 
twice in Des Moines, the last time in 
the Central Presbyterian church, in No- 
vember, and both times captivated her 
audiences with the beauty of her voice 
and the splendid art of her method. It 
seems but a few years ago since a lit- 
tle girl sang in the church choir and at 
school festivals, with a charm and 
abandon which made her a universal 
favorite, Then as a young lady — sing- 
ing ballads and lighter music, still with 
the same lovely natural voice. And 
one day Dean Howard said to some 
friends, "Come out to our next recital, 
and hear a young artist who sings like 



a bird." The young artist was Grace 
Jones, one of Dean Howard's favorite 
pupils. The public was surprised and 
delighted with her. At the Drake 
School her progress was rapid, and 
finally her dream was realized and she 
went to London to study under Ronald. 
Her study in Berlin was with Heine- 
mann, and several years ago she took 
a course of lessons with Georga Ham- 
mond in Chicago. 

In temperament as well as in educa- 
tion Mrs. Jackson is the thorough mu- 
sician. She is splendidly equipped for 
a position as teacher of the voice. 
Above everything else she is an inspir- 
ation to her pupils and few teachers 
east or west bring to their work more 
thorough musical training than she 
does. Drake may well be congratulat- 
ed upon this accession to the faculty of 
the Conservatory of Music. 



For 1909! 

Having enjoyed in the past year the greatest 
success in our history, this store is already 
planning still greater achievements on a scale 
so elaborate that it will be heralded more 
than ever as Iowa's Foremost Store. 0^ ^b 

Younker Brothers 

Des Moines 



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FREDERICK VANCE EVANS 



THE NEW SECRETARY OF DRAKE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 



Frederick Vance Evans, whose por- 
trait we herewith present, has in a meas- 
ure come to his own in th_e recent ap- 
pointment bestowed upon him by Drake 
University to the Secretaryship of the 
Musical Department of that institution. 
Along with his duties as Secretary, an 
office created for him, are the temporary 
duties of acting Dean. The recent be- 
reavement to the Drake Conservatory, 
the University, the city, the state and 
country in the death of Frederick How 
ard, the former Dean, made essential 
the selection of an able man to take his 



place. Mr. Evans studied and gradu- 
ated under Dean Howard, and in addi- 
tion was a most intimate associate. Since 
leaving the tutorship of this great man 
he has pursued constantly the study of 
his chosen profession, under the world 
masters, has concertized in nearly every 
state in the Union; and the great res- 
ponsibilities that confront him at this 
time will, we are sure, be handled prop- 
erly, and the reputation and standards 
of the Drake University Conservatory 
maintained and even increased. 

It is really conceded that to be a 



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teacher of the voice one must himself 
sing well. The method may be under- 
stood, but if the teacher cannot empha- 
size his theory by example, his work 
will fall far short of its possibilities. It 
is through splendid example that the 
pupil is inspired to exertion, and this 
splendid example is given by Frederic 
Vance Evans to all who are so for- 
tunate as to be listed among his pupils. 
Mr. Evans, for several years has been a 
member of the faculty of Drake Con- 
servatory of Music. Although but a 
young man he sings with the finish of 
an artist His stage presence is fine 
and added to a glorious voice, sympa- 
thetic and of exquisite musical quality, 
he sings with a rare intelligence that 
stamps him both scholar and musician. 
His popularity at Drake is unques- 
tioned, and he has always been one of 



their strong teachers. Added to his fine 
qualifications as a teacher, Mr. Evans 
has a fund of good, practical business 
sense which enables him to conduct his 
new duties in a most satisfactory manner. 

To command the services of such a 
man and such an artist, Drake Conser- 
vatory is certainly to be congratulated. 
Mr. Evans is known far and wide for 
his conscientious work as well as for 
his singing. He is leader of the choir 
in the First Methodist Church and has 
been frequently heard in concert and 
oratorio work in Des Moines, where 
his friends and admirers are countless. 

Mr. Evans and his wife will leave for 
Europe immediately after commence- 
ment season is over. Further study and 
search for a man to augment the voice 
faculty of the Conservatory will fill the 
limited time he will have abroad. 



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It tells of materials, methods of construction, de- 
tails of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating, 
ventilating, decorating, furnishing, etc. The book 
is thoroughly illustrated with plans and photo- 
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home builder and architect. The cost ranges 
from $5,000 to $25,000 as a rule. 




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^ In this stock are a number of Stein- 
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George A. Boody 

TO decorate a home interior cor- tail 
rectly is a serious problem with 
a great many home keepers and 
especially those of the finer sen- 
sibilities, there are so many 
things to keep in mind. I will offera few 
suggestions if clearly kept before you 
will greatly facilitate the work in hand 
and not only make decorating a satis- 
faction, but an absolute pleasure. First 
— We must have harmony, not only in 
color, but in weight, architecture, con- 
tour of room, etc., so it is absolutely 
essential to first place the things in the 
room that are of a fixed nature and 
cannot readily be worked over such as 
furniture and rugs. Please your taste 
in these two items, then take a sample 
of your rugs and furniture to your dec- 
orator and allow him to make sugges- 
tions until the ends of harmony and 
your aesthetics are satisfied, however, 
it is right at this point that so many- 
people find their difficulties, which is 
due largely to one of three things: 
You either have a very definite idea 
fixed in your mind as to what you will 
or will not have and it is not on the 
market, or you think you know what 
you want and do not recognize it when 
von see it. or you lack confidence in 
your decorator. Let US analyze these 
three points and see if we can reduce 
the difficulty to a minimum : First — ■ 
An article must be marie if we expect 
to use it and if it is made the quickest 
way to find it is to go to the largest 
and best selected retail stock to be seen 
in your community. T emphasize re- 



HOW TO PROCEED 



>ecause only old buyers of retail 
lines know the demands of retail users, 
then as a compromise on this point be 
elastic in your ideas as frequently you 
will find a high salaried color man and 
designer at the factory has produced a 
piece of goods that if shown to you 
properly and you are unbiased in your 
judgment will be more pleasing and 
correct from a decorative point of view 
than the piece oi goods you had in 
mind. Second — To say you think you 
know what you want is not questioning 
the taste or the ability of anyone, but 
is simply offering a suggestion to help 
you solve your own problem for you 
either know what you want or you 
don't know. If you know and don't 
sec it, of course, it is not there and the 
quicker you try another lead the hap- 
pier you will be and if it should be in 
the stock which you are inspecting and 
you don't realize it then it is proof 
positive von are not sure of just what 
you wanted. T would suggest — go to 
your decorator's shop open to convic- 
tion. Third— Have a decorator who is 
worthy of vour confidence, let him help 
vou, but don't turn the work over to 
him completely as it is the height of 
his taste and individuality and ignore 
folly to have your decorator exercise 
yours as the likes and dislikes of every 
"home owner should be the basis on 
which the true decorator should build 
his decorative scheme and your individ- 
uality should be woven into the general 
fabric of the decorating, if completing 
the home beautiful. 



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A new kind of 

Insurance 

Policy 

is that of the 

Des Moines Water 



Works Company 

Insuring your 

HEALTH 

by 
Drinking and Using 

more 

Good, Clean, Pure 

Water 

such as 

Des Moines Water. 




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Yourself Look 
LIKE THIS 



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THE DES MOINES BREWING CO.'S HOME MM 

The Policy of The New 

Des Moines Brewing Company 

IS TO INSURE THE PUBLIC 

GOOD, CLEAN, PURE BEER 

OLD TflVERI) 

Is its name, and the kind we all need. 

A SPECIAL INVITATION IS EXTENDED TO EVERYBODY 

— visiting people and all — to come and see the Des Moines Brewing Company's 
Beautiful New home, located at Third and Vine and A Streets. The most court- 
eous treatment will be shown you, and we are sure you will go away saying 

IT IS A WONDERFULLY INTERESTING 

AND 

IMMACULATE PLACE. 



OLD TAVERN" is Sold By All Dealers. 



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written. In addition to a complete collection of all hardy 
Plants this new manual will contain the following interesting 
specials: 

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Special Lot of Flowering Magnolias 



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Free fn.m insect attacks and so easy to grow 
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are the originators and sole owners of these 
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of these Mallow Marvel flowers in color, photo- 
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interesting. This 



THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS, 
Box 5, GERMANTOWN, PHILA. 



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Gas Reflexolierb 

Surpass all other lights 

in 

Brilliancy 

Economy 
and 

Simplicity . . 

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WITH THE EDITOR 



The Midwestern presents this, the third annual insurance number with 
feelings of reasonable pride. The insurance business leads all others in Des 
Moines. The men who are at the head of the various companies are among 
our representative and most progressive citizens. The insurance business 
adds materially each year to the advancement of our interest and the highest 
welfare of our city and state. All of the reliable and well established home 
companies have a representation in this issue and most of the foreign agen- 
cies also. 

* * * 

The fine articles upon insurance topics in this issue w ; .ll be read with in- 
terest, especially by business men, all of whom are vitally interested in some 
phase of the insurance question. Most of these articles were prepared espec- 
ially for us, and are well and convincingly written. We will be glad to hear 
from our friends, what they think about them. 

* * * 

The series of articles about Iowa and the Givil War will run through the 
year and our announcement concerning them has attracted wide interest. 
In order to secure them all for future reference, subscriptions should be sent 
in at once. We have a limited number of the January books left. 

* * * 

The Automobile Department will delight all who are more or less infect- 
ed with the motor microbe. It will appear regularly during the spring and 
summer season. Our story in diary form by "Chinks" will be appreciated 
by our readers and is by one of the best of the auto men in the city, and one 
whose head is full of brilliant ideas. Another story is promised from him 
next month. In order to have questions answered they must be sent in be- 
fore the tenth of the month. Mr. R. B. Howard's experiences on a long trip 
are well related and the photographs were taken by the author. Mr. Gibson 
gives a good presentation of the work and needs of the Iowa Automobile club. 
In fact there is not a dull line in the department. It will reach every auto- 
mobile owner in Iowa. 

* * * 

One or two of our departments are omitted for this time. They will be 
resumed next month. 

* * * 

Many subscriptions were received during January, and we extend to each 
new member of The Midwestern family a cordial greeting. Let us hear from 
you occasionally with suggestion or comment. 

* * * 

To our friends among the insurance firms we extend our gratitude for 
the aid you have given us in our three annual insurance numbers, in show- 
ing to the world that we are the Hartford of the middle West. Our experi- 
ence teaches us that every wide-awake and progressive insurance firm is a 
good Des -Moines booster. There are a few fossils, but they cannot hurt the 
general movement and their lack of interest in Des Moines must eventually 
react upon themselves. We hope that all of our friends will have the utmost 
success and joy in their work during the coming year. They have certainly 
earned the right to it. 

THE MIDWESTERN 



LET ME 
CURE YOUR EYES 
and Save Your Sight 

Try My Absorption Treatment 
Free For Fifteen Days 

I WANT TO SAVE YOU FROM BLINDNESS 

Here is My 
Offer 

will send a course 

of my Absorption 

Treatment a b s o - 

lutely free for 1 5 

days' trial to every 

person suffering 

with any weakness 

or diseased eyes, 

or failng sight 
/ place this treat- 
ment in \>our hands 
—all charges pre- 
paid - permit you to 
use it 15 days. If 
you are not then sat- 
isfied, you do not 
have to continue its 
use, and it will not 
cost you a single cent. 

Warning Symptoms of 

Failing Sight and 

Eye Diseases 

Do your eyes smnrt or burn ) 
Do they weep, or run water) 
Any flouting Rpots before your 
eyes? 

Ache or pain in or about eye- 

Do '•>'« feel weak, sore or 

tirc.i 

ly? 




W. O. COFFEE. M. D. 

Are the lids granulated? 
Do they itch, scratch or feel dry? 
Vision becoming smoky, cloudy or dim? 

Have you any Spots. Senilis, Pterygiums or growths of any kind 
If so, describe them. Have you Cataract 



Most y„„ nib eyes to see clear- 

1 "i you read the smallest print ? 
^Ml itch eye separately on this 

..a;,!'"' W " rds "" Or run tO- 

• ighl't y "" W6 " r K lnsses f " «'eak 
Da you B ee objects double? 

SL*5 5Uir 'T with Wil<l »"l™» 



growing on the eyeball) 
forming in eyes? 

Test: Stick a pin through a plain white card; close one eye: 
look through hole with oilier. If you see any spots or webs it 
is a cataract. 

All these symptoms indicate disease, weakness or disturbed cir- 
culation in the eyes. Any one of them may mean that u disease 
is creeping over your Optic Nerve that will make you totally 
blind if it is not stopped. 

I want you to write DM about any of the above svmptoms- let 
me tell you what they mean; let me cure it before it is too late. 
Don t lake chances on blindness. There is no excuse for it. 

Accept my offer today. Bond DO money — simply write me a de- 
leription ot your case, and I will prepare and send you this treat- 
ment. Address: — i 

Dr. W. O.Coffee, dm Mm, ia. 



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A GOLDSTEIN MODEL 

Mr. Goldstein has returned from his 
midwinter trip to New York and is en- 
thusiastic in regard to the styles and 
materials for spring suits. He says 
that in colors, tans and grays predomi- 
nate, followed by black, brown and 
blue. The coats are shorter and half 
fitting, dressy suits trimmed in soutelle 
and other braid. The styles are varied 
and suit all figures. Everybody in Des 
Moines and Iowa knows that to have a 
Goldstein suit is to be in the fashion 
and not to have one is to be strictly out 
of it. hi his store may be seen every 
conceivable varied" of color and of 
quality, so that every taste may be 



gratified. Mr. Goldstein is an artist in 
his line and his workmanship is both 
elegant and substantial. His parlors in 
the Century Block are Just now 
thronged early and late. A rate of 10 
per cent discount is being given unl 
February ioth. 






Pianos at Unusual Prices 



The World's Largest Music House 

LYON & HEALY 

announces a Clearing Sale of Pianos, 
owing to the re-building of their 
warerooms. Nearly one thousand fine 
instruments are offered without re- 
serve until all are sold. 

*I In this stock are a number of Stein- 
way, Weber, Lyon & Healy and 
Washburn instruments Also new 
and second-hand pianos of almost 
all well-known makes. Prices, $120, 
$140, $150, $165, $190. $200 and up- 
wards. This is an opportunity that 
will not occur again. Lyon & Healy 
must reduce their stock at once to 
facilitate Re-building. 

LYON & HEALY 

34 Adams St., CHICAGO 

Pianos Shipped Everywhere Freight Costs Very Little 



Insure Against 
BURGLARS and SNEAKTHIEVES 

We have the BEST Policy 

1 Surety and Fidelity Bonds of all kinds | 
» executed promptly. 

* The Aetna Indemnity Co. 

CARL M. ERDMAN, Mgr. 



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The Union Central Life Insurance Go. 

OF CINCINNATI 

NO STOCKS OR BONDS. Policyholders of The Union Central are protected by the laws, 
which prohibit the Union Central from investing in stocks or bonds excepting State, County 
or Municipal Bonds. The Union Central owns no stocks and no bonds, except $10,000 United 
States bonds. 

Highest Interest Earnings. Union Central policyholders enjoy the great advantage result- 
ing from the fact that the Union Central earns a higher rate of interest on its investments than 
any other large life insurance company, hence large dividends and low net cost. 



W . H . WHITE 



402-404 Good Block. 



Mutual Phone 114H 



DES MOINES, IA. 



DIRECTORY OF OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN DES MOINES 

None out Registered Osteopaths will appear in this ^Department 



DRS. CALDWELL & RIDGE WAY 301-304 Flynn Blk. Both Phones Office Hours 9-1 I and 1-2 



DR. P. B. GROW 



Cor. S. W. Ninth and Park Ave. 



Both Phones 



DRS. J. A. and JENNIE A. STILL 729 East Locust St. 



Both Phones 



DR. EVA SNIDER WALKER 



1112 Eleventh St. 



Both Phones 




The Turner Rest Home 

Sanitarium and Mineral Spring 

COLFAX, IOWA 

Open all the year. Mineral Water Baths. X Ray, 

Klectrlc and Hydrotherapy treatments. 

WRITE KOK BOOKLXT 

I. C. S. TURNER. M. 0. ALICE TURNER, M. D. 

Proprietors and Managers 



THE MIDWESTERN 

Published Monthly at Des Moines, Iowa, by the 
Greater Des Moines Publishing Company. 

Offices 532-542 Good Block. 

gnterej at Ties Moines Post Oflice as 2nd Class Matter 
Terms, $ I yr . Copyright 1908 All Rights Reserved 



Dyspepsla-Billiousness-Rfieumatlsm| 

Constlpatlc-i i >er and Kidneys. 
A Jug full on trial will I 
convince you. | 

A full descriptive Booklet] 
mailed on application. | 

f gallon ' U § ""I press for v'l 

We pay 50c for the jug 
, when returned. Address 

COLFAX BOTTLING WORKS 

Colfax. Iowa 



DES MOINES 



CARPET GLEANING 

WORKS 

D. G. CARNAHAN. Prop. 
Mutual L 7543 764 NINTH STREET 

Iowa 190 X 



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Twenty-fourth Annual Statement, January 1st, 1909 

OF THE 

Des Moines Life 
Insurance Company 

Home Office, DES MOINES LIFE BUILDING 
Des Moines, Iowa 

Paid Up Capital Stock $100,000.00 

Greatest Year in Company's History. Sets 
New Mark for Iowa Old Line Companies 

IOWA'S POPULAR and PROGRESSIVE GO. 

$26,897,436 Insurance in Force. Net Increase $2,328,684 



Officers and Directors 

C. E. RAWSON, President and General Manager 

L. C. RAWSON, Vice-President DR. C. H. PHILPOTT, Second Vice-President 

WILMOT A HARBACH, Secretary ARTHUR REYNOLDS, Treasurer 

WM. S. DONAHEY, Auditor DR. RUSSELL M. YOUNG, Medical Director 

DR. J. M. EMERY, Actuary A. H. EVANS, Assistant Secretary 

N. E. COFFIN, Counsel CLINTON L. NOURSE, Director 

W. E HAMILTON, Director 



ASSETS 

Real Estate Owned (Unincumbered) .$ 189,044.51 

First Mortgage Loans 1,462,941.00 

Loans on Company's Own Policies.. 688,457.71 

Cash in Office and Bank 23,198.55 

Agents' Ledger Balances 7,802.83 

Premium Notes 9,934.76 

Other secured investments 552.13 

Interest Due and Accrued 36,631.01 

Premiums Due and Deferred (Net). 128,829.00 



Gross Assets $ 2,547,391.50 

Less Items Not Admitted.... 15,988.23 



Total Admitted Assets. . . . 
LIABILITIES 



. $ 2,531,403.27 



Reserve (Mid-Year) Actuaries' 4 

and American 3% per cent Tables.? 2,052,908.00 

Claims for Death Losses (Proofs 
Not Completed) 

All Othor Liabilities 

Surplus to Policy Holders (As- 
signed and Unassigned) 



33,500.00 
45,825.44 



399,169.83 



Total $ 2,531,403.27 

Insurance in Force $26,897,436.00 

Net Increase 2,328,684.00 

Admitted Assets 2,531,403.27 



Dept. 



Net Increase 
Deposit with State 

Net Increase 

Premium Income 

Net Increase 

Surplus to Policy Holders. 

Net Increase 



299,979.44 

1, 173, 515. 04 

299,187.27 

863,348.33 

50,865.52 

899,169.83 

36,044.58 



STATE DEPOSIT 

The Company's Pyramid of Assets on Deposit with State 
Department in Accordance with Iowa Law 

1890 .... 

1892 

1894 

1896 . 

1898 

1900 . 

1902 

1904 ... 
1906 



000 
21,000.00 

58,856.53 
120,135.94 

183.486.62 

250,194.08 

285,072.01 

903,157.22 **>* 

1,357,129.50 ,SK * 
1908 1,874,327.77 ,908 

1909 t% 1 -1 n r t r ft l --w 



1890 
1892 
1894 
1896 
1898 

190* 
1902 



All Policies are secured by interest-bearing Securities 
Good Contracts to Reliable Agents. 



2,173,5 1 5.04 

deposited with the Auditor of Stata of Iowa. 

Write Home Office for Policy Prospectus. 



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A PARTNERSHIP AND THE PRICE 

~An Unusual Opportunity* 



A real active partnership in an 
established growing business insti- 
tution—does this interest you? 

Magazine publishing is one of the 
most profitable of all legitimate 
branches of business. Such men as 
Frank Munsey, with several publi- 
cations; Cyrus K. Curtis, with the 
Ladies Home Journal and Saturday 
Evening Post, and in England, Al- 
fred Harmsworth (Lord North- 
cliffe) have together made millions 
and millions of dollars each year 
during the past decade. The per- 
centage of success is higher in the 
magazine business than in any other 
industry. 

We offer you the opportunity to 
share in these magazine profits. We 
offer you the privilege of becoming 
an active partner in publishing the 
most rapidly growing magazine in 
America — to obtain a share of the 
profits of what is becoming one of 
the best paying enterprises in Amer- 
ica. 

VAN NORDEN— The World Mirror- 
occupies today a place among America's 
leading magazines, and is growing more 
rapidly than any other. It has passed the 
experimental stage. It is a certainty in 
business. Its future is as safe as any- 
thing can be. It is an established in- 
stitution. 

We want partners all over the country 
—People who feel a live interest In us— 
active, influential men and women. We 



want their co-operation, their advice, 
their ideas. To secure this co-operation, 
we offer you a partnership with us, a 
share in our profits, as follows. 

Our capital stock is small — $200,000 — 
of which only $149,000 has been issued 
for cash- There remains in the treasury 
$51,000, and we offer this at par, $50 per 
share. Not over 5 shares will be sold to 
any one person, and we reserve the right 
to refuse any offer. This stock will 
share in all the profits of the Company 
equally with the rest of the stock. Its 
earning power is not limited. Send your 
check for $50 to $250 to us and we will 
send your certificate at once. 

We can quickly place every share of 
this stock by selling it to a few wealthy 
men, or by turning it over to a Wall 
Street promoter — but this we will not do. 
We are going to sell the stock to readers 
of this magazine. We want our stock- 
holders to be our friends and partners, 
not mere speculators. To have these 
profit-sharing partners in every part of 
America is going to be of inestimable 
value to us. 

For the man or woman with from 
$50 to $250 to invest, this is an unusual 
opportunity. The magazine is firmly 
established; there are no back debts to 
pay; no water in the stock; no pre- 
ferred stock; no bonus stock. Everyone 
pays the same— par ($50), and every 
one is on a fair and square profit-sharing basis 
Every cent of this $51,000 is to be 
spent in the immediate further ^r- .« 
development of the magazine 

The coupon in the 
lower corner is for ^w 4; 
the express purpose 
of making it easy for Jf .. ,5 ,.<" 





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you to send for more ^7 # .^ ^» 
information re- ^7 w> $ ■P 
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HOMESTEADERS 



" THE YOUNG GIANT OF FRATERNALS " came into existence at the hands 
o( men schooled by long years of fraternal experience, and is therefore right in plan, benefits, cost and management. 

Chartered by Iowa in February, 1906, and has astonished the insurance world. 

Originated by men who had noted the weak points of others and is therefore strong for the AFTER 
years as well as the NOW. 

Look at the plan. Look at the faces of the men— you know them — they have clean records. 



BENEFITS 

For death and more than twenty 


AGE 


$500 


$1,000 


$ 1.500 


$2,000 


$2,500 


J3.000 


16 to 30 
31 to 35 


» 30 
30 


$ 50 
55 


| 75 

85 


* 1 00 

1 10 


$ 1 25 

1 40 


% 1 50 
16$ 


kinds of accidents, including bro- 


M to BO 

SI to 35 


35 
40 


65 
75 


100 

1 15 


1 30 
1 50 


1 65 

1 eo 


195 
215 


ken bones, dislocations, amputa- 


36 to 40 
41 to 45 


45 
55 


90 
1 10 


1 35 
1 65 


1 80 
3 30 


2 25 
2 75 


2 70 
330 


tions, and loss of eyesight by cat- 


46 to 48 
49 to 51 


65 
75 


1 30 
1 50 


1 95 

3 25 


2 60 

3 00 






aract, and total and old age disa- 


52 to 68 
54 to 55 


85 

95 


1 70 
1 90 


2 55 
2 85 


3 40 
380 






bility benefits, at the following 


51! to 57 
58 


1 05 
1 15 


2 10 

3 30 


3 15 
3 45 


4 K 
4 60 






monthly rates of assessment: 


59 

60 


1 30 
1 50 


260 
3 00 


390 
450 


5 311 
600 







WRITE FOR LITERATURE AND CONTRACT TO 

JN0. E. PAUL, Supreme Pres't, 7th & Mulberry Sts., Des Moines, la., U.S.A. 

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10 



SHALL WE HAVE A NEW INSURANCE DEPARTMENT 



The general consensus of opinion in 
regard to Senator Dowell's bill calling 
for the creation of a separate depart- 
ment to care for the insurance interests 
of this State should and will be defeat- 
ed in the present session of the legis- 
lature. Not alone in insurance circles 
is this feeling, but level-headed busi- 
ness men all over the State have the 
same opinion. 

In the first place, it will entail un- 
necessary expense, for things are very- 
satisfactory under present conditions. 

To create an office merely to place a 
man, and thus increase one's political 
pull, is on the face of it absurd, and 
when conditions are perfectly satisfac- 
tory, why entail upon the tax payers 
$20,000 of additional expense, the cost 
of a new office and a new officer. 



Governor Carroll has pleased his con- 
stituents with the economy of his ad- 
ministration as State Auditor. Let us 
have a continuance of the good work 
done in his office and a continuation of 
the economical policy in force now. 

Insurance actuaries say that a sep- 
arate department cannot be operated 
for less than $30,000 annually. 

When things are satisfactory to the 
Insurance Companies as they now 
stand, what do the people of Iowa say 
to a needless expense of $30,000 a year? 

Is it not all the most arrant political 
foolishness? 

Let not the members of this legisla 
ture'be deceived as to the attitude and 
the sentiment of the people on this 
question. 



The State Insurance Co. I 

of DES MOINES, IOWA ■ 

has been in business 44 years and Paid the Policy Holders over J 
$4,172,000.00 for loss by ■ 

FIRE, LIGHTNING AND WINDSTORM I 

Is a home company; invests its money at home and is deserving 
of the patronage of Home People. H 



ONE WAY TO INSURE BUSINESS 



Perhaps no class of business men 
more fully appreciate the value of 
making a good appearance in order to 
secure business than do insurance 
men. As a rule they are well dressed 
and up-to-date. At one time this was 
a difficult thing to do and very expen- 
sive, as a suit had to be discarded in 
a few months of wear in this dirty 
western country. But all the difficul- 
ties of looking fresh and new which 
presented themselves ten years ago 
are now obviated by the fact that no 
matter how soiled or wrinkled, a suit 
may be made to look like new by the 
New Wardrobe, which uses the most 
strictly modern methods of cleaning 



and pressing of any establishment in 
the state of Iowa. The man of modest 
salary can insure himself an increased 
amount of business by becoming a 
patron of the New Wardrobe. There 
is no excuse for his looking shabby and 
dirty. All he has to do is to call up 
179T — over the Mutual or the Iowa 
'phones and send his old clothes by 
their carrier. He will look and feel re- 
juvenated when the suit comes back 
and he gets into it. Then there will be 
something doing that is worth while 
and he will advise all of his business 
friends to go and do likewise — gel 
made new bv The New Wardrobe. 



11 



Tapestry Painting 

200 Beautiful Tapestry Paintings by 
the Most Eminent Artists in the World 
to Select From 

We can show you effects produced with Tapestry Paintings, 
properly selected and placed, NEVER before shown. 

SCHOOL 

We have the finest Tapestry Painting School on earth. It 
is open every business day in the year, not only for the tuition 
of beginners, but we give Teachers of Art in general an oppor- 
tunity to obtain all the new and up-to-date ideas, making 
their task much easier at the Institutions where they are the 
Art Instructors, in fact, we tea«-h the teachers. We are not 
in the Tapestry business, strictly speaking, for a business, 
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The Midwestern 



VOLUME III 



FEBRUARY, 1909 



NUMBER 6 




RATES, RATE MAKING AND THE 
BLANCHARD LAW 

George J, Delmege, President of the Century Fire Insurance Co. 



IN THIS paper I propose to un- 
fold to you a few thoughts upon 
a feature that is vital to the suc- 
cessful conduct of the fire in- 
surance business, viz., the rate 
or premium charge for the liability as- 
sumed and the manner of fixing same. 
Any risk of any character can be taken 
by the company provided the rate or 
premium charge is high enough, but no 
risk can be assumed for a non-compen- 
sating premium charge without preju- 
dice to the business, or without infring- 
ing the rights of other policy holders. 
The business policy that says make up 
the under rate charge on Jones' risk by 
an over charge on Brown's risk is ab- 
solutely indefensible from any correct 
business viewpoint. Risks with like 
environment! and of the same general 
character should carry the same rate and 
the owners of such risks in the same 
field should each and every one enjoy 
the same privileges as to rates. To de- 
viate from this indisputable correct 
business principle by granting rate fa- 
vors to one policy holder not conceded 
to all is to niter upon the exploitation 
ot ;i business policy wholly indefensible 
either in ethics or morals. 

I'hat the tire insurance business can- 
not be conducted on the go as you 
please plan, if the interest of the as- 
sured and the company is to be prop- 
erly safeguarded, each company mak- 
ing its own rates on the territory it cov- 
ers, which would mean that the local 
agent would become the company's 
rate-maker, is a self-evident fact, be- 
cause rates to be intelligently made 
must be based on knowledge; knowl- 
edge as to the relative hazard of risks , 
knowledge as to the thousand and one 
things that go to make up the hazard 
•f a risk. Such knowledge the local 




E. A. NYE 
Vice-President of the Century Fire 



Insuranc 



e Co. 



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THE MIDWESTERN 




CHAS. O. GOODWIN 
Adjuster for the Century Fire Insurance Co. 



agent does not possess ; such knowl- 
edge the average special agent does 
not possess ; such knowledge few man 
igers of companies themselves possess; 
but such knowledge the rate-maker 




JOHN M. READ 
Counsellor of the Century Fire Insurance Co. 



must possess, if the business of under- 
writing is to have a reasonably safe 
and sound foundation upon which to 
base its operations. 

What is known in Iowa as the 
Blanchard Law (God rest the soul of 
its author) is iniquitous in that it for- 
bids the free interchange of experiences 
among companies; forbids companv 
managers operating in Iowa frjm 
meeting in conference and thus gath- 
ering for each the experiences of all; 
forbids the joint employment of mtr., 
who understand how to gather togeln- 
er and scientifically apply the experi 
ence of companies in the rating of 
risks; and it is this right and privilege 
that the business interests of Iowa, 
asked for Iowa, so that the business in 
Iowa can be conducted on a scientific- 
ally correct basis. 

The business of fire insurance is not 
on a par with other lines of business. 
The dry goods merchant, the grocer, 
the dealer in hardware, the clothing 
merchant, the implement dealer, each 
and all may easily familiarize and in- 
form themselves as to their particular 
lines of business, but it is n.ot so with 
the fire insurance manager. The man- 
ager of the fire insurance company is 
daily called to pass upon a multiplicity 
of risks of various shades and degrees 
of hazard. These risks are offered on 
paper and not even a picture of the 
risk is before him, and sometimes, es- 
pecially if the risk is a little off brand, 
the description given in the application 
is a trifle exaggerated, the agent hav- 
ing in mind the difficulties of the ex- 
aminer, and being of a philanthropic 
frame of mind, desires to relieve him 
of his perplexities by aiding him in ar- 
riving at a determination to approve 
the risk, but the aid that the examiner 
needs to assist him in arriving at a 
correct judgment of the risk offered is 
to know that it is a rated risk, and that 
the rate was fixed by a competent rat- 
er, by one who had viewed the risk, by 
one who knew how to weigh and value 
every item and detail entering in to 
make up the full hazard of the risk. 
With this aid, the examiner has but to 
determine as to the line and whether 
his company writes that class. 

Commissioner T. J. McComb in his 
admirable address before the Credit 
Men's Association at Oklahoma City, 




RATES, RATE MAKING 



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Director in the Century Fire Insurance Co. 

speaking of insurance as a necessity, 
and the necessity for classification of 
risks in order that each insurer shall 
pay his just proportion of the fire tax 
and no more, said : 





MR. J. C. HARTY. of Fort Dodge 

Dean of the Century's Field Men, who has charge 

of the Northern Iowa field 



HOMER A. MILLER 
Treasurer of the Century Fire Insurance Co. 

"Liy reference to a report of the Spec- 
tator Company we find that during the 
past ten years on an average 117 com- 
panies reporting earned premiums of 
$1,641,889,657.00, paid for losses and 
underwriting expenses during that pe- 
riod, $1,728,064,082.00, an underwrit- 
ing loss of $86,174,425.00, or a ratio of 
losses and expenses to premiums of 
105 per cent. Taking the record of the 
last five years, an average of 114 com- 
panies reporting premiums earned 
$964,131,837.00, paid out for losses and 
underwriting expenses $1,026,016, 
122.00, an underwriting loss of $61,- 
884,285.00, or a ratio of losses and ex- 
penses to premiums of 106 per cent. 

"Since fire insurance has for its pur 
pose merely the meeting of losses, it is 
not investment, hut indemnity. Insur- 
ance is the distribution of a loss over 
the heads of many so that it may fall 
as lightly as possible on the individual. 
But all property is not subject to the 
same hazard. For instance, the brick 
dwelling, the cotton gin and powder 
magazine are nut identical risks and it 
would be just as wrong and unfair to 
place them in the same class as it 
would be for a life insurance company 
to place a young man twenty years of 
age in the same class with a man sev- 
enty years of age, or for a railroad 
company to charge the man that has 
10,000 pounds of freight the same for 




E. G. RANDALL, of Waterloo 
In Charge of the Northwest Iowa Field 



C. L. MONTGOMERY, of Ottumwa 
Special Agent Southern Iowa 



transportation as the man that has 
100,000 pounds. In other words, classi- 
fication is necessary in order that each 
man shall pay his just proportion of 
the fire tax and no more. We all ad- 
mit that discrimination in railroad rates 
is wrong and should be prohibited. 
Certainly this same theory should hold 
good in fire insurance, as it does in the 
matter of railroad rates. Admitting 
then that discrimination should not be 
permitted in fire insurance, but that 
each insurer should receive a square 
deal and that adequate premiums are 
necessary in order that a company may 
live and furnish real indemnity, it is 
merely stating the same proposition in 
different words to say that rate-cutting 
is wrong and should not be permitted. 
It is a very plain proposition that com- 
panies must collect an adequate rate 
to meet their losses or they cannot live. 
Therefore inadequate .rates if univer- 
sally applied would result in defeating 
the object to be attained, namely, in- 
demnity, an.d if not universally applied, 
we have discrimination as before stat- 
ed. Both these errors or 'evils must 
therefore be avoided. Losses must be 



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taken care of and no kind of legislation 
can force rates below what is abso- 
lutely necessary to take care of the 
losses. 

"As before stated, classification is 
necessary in order that each insurer 
may pay his just proportion of the tax 
and no more, and it is necessary that 
individual inspection of each risk must 
be made before a rate can be deter- 
mined and reinspected and rerated a 
ter every material change." 

Any law that operates to prevent th 
accomplishment of what is here sug- 
gested by Commissioner McComb is 
inimical to the interests of the assured 
and the insurer. The Blanchard law of 
Iowa makes it impossible to accom- 
plish what Commissioner McComb 
here states is absolutely necessary for 
the just and equitable working out of 
the insurance problem, and it should 
therefore be repealed. 

Rates made by the inexperienced 
are worthless. Rates to have any value 
must be scientifically determined, tak- 
ing into account every feature of the 
risk rated. The value hazard of each 
feature being estimated from the pasl 



RATKS, RATH MAKING 




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THE WINNER 

A. R. HOFFMAN 

The hustling Agent of the Century Fire Insurance Co. Mr. Hoffman was the 

ranking Agent anong 533 Century Agents in Iowa during the year 1908 



underwriting experience of companies, 

and rates can be so made only by the 
experienced underwriter, and rates so 
made are fair rates and duly regard 
the equities involved by securing to 
each and every policy holder exact jus- 
tice, and rates so made should be ad- 
hered to. 

As suggested, if Jones and Brown 
' ■" li have risks of the same class and 
equal hazard, each should be required 
to pay the same premium charge for 
his insurance, and if the same company 
Mould charge one of these men a less 



premium than it charges the other, such 
act would be both immoral and un- 
businesslike, and such act should be 
discountenanced by all who believe in 
fair dealing and correct business prac- 
tice. 

Now if legislatures wish to do the 
square thing by policy holders and 
companies, there is just one way, and 
one way only, to do it and that is to 
consent to have rates scientifically ad- 
justed on the different classes of prop- 
erty, and t < > require companies t>> apply 
the same rate to all properties "f the 




H.A. MOORHEAD ED CARST , ,^ A nSw 

S H. METCALF GRANT ARNOLD LAKE DAVIDSON 

H. D JUDD JOHN McCARLEY 

This group represents a few of the Century Fire Insurance Company's Boosters 



RATES, RATE MAKING 



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same class and equal hazard ; the rate 
being fixed at a charge commensurate 
with the hazard of the risk, and then to 
require companies each and every one 
to abide by and adhere to the rates so 
made. For the manager of any com- 
pany to say, or to be permitted to say, 
to the local agent. "You may in cer- 
tain contingencies cut the rate on Jim 
Brown's risk below the rate given Tom 
Jones, each being of equal hazard" is, 
as I maintain, not only immoral and 
unbusinesslike, but violates the square 
dealing principles that should govern 
all companies in their dealings with 
their policy holders. 

The question arises then as to the 
best 'manner of making rates. That 
rates to have any value must be the 
outgrowth of the scientific knowledge 
of the rate-maker, cannot be question- 
ed. But for each individual company 
to send a man so qualified abroad in 
the field over which it operates to fix 
rates for it on all the risks therein, 
would be absolutely impracticable, and 
for each company to hire the number of 
qualified rate-makers that would be 
needed if each company was obliged to 
rate the risks in the field over which it 
operated, would add a very heavy bur- 
den of expense to the business, an ex- 
pense wholly unwarranted and with no 
justification therefor, for the reason 
that one rater can rate a town for 200 
companies as well as 200 raters, each 
acting for an individual company, could 
rate the same town, and at i-20oths 
part of the expense. Eg. There are 
114 stock fire insurance companies op- 
erating in Iowa. Would it not be ab- 
surd for each of these companies to be 
compelled to employ a corps of men to 
do the rate-making that one set of men 
could do for all? In other words, 
would it not be ridiculous to multiply 
the expense of rate-making for Iowa 
114 times. 

The importance of the fire insurance 
business in Iowa becomes impressive 
when we consider that the premiums 
paid to fire insurance companies doing 
business in Iowa last year amounted 
to $7,882,228.96. Surely a business of 
so vast importance to the property 
owners of Iowa should not be hedged 
about by restrictive laws, that not only 
prevent the companies from having the 
Property risks of the state scientifically 



rated, but which put in jeopardy the 
future of a great interest that is vital to 
all the business undertakings of the 
state. The property owners who an- 
nually pay out this vast sum for pro- 
tection against fire loss are vitally in- 
terested in knowing that the rate 
charged them was not the result of a 
guess or the taking of the gambler's 
chance, but that it was the result of a 
scientific examination of their risks, 
and that the rate charged was based 
upon an accurate knowledge derived 
from past experience of companies on 
similar risks. Rate-making is of the 
first importance both to the company 
selling the indemnity and to the prop- 
erty owner who buys it. If rates are 
inadequate companies must fail, and 
the indemnity sought, prove valueless. 
That the rate charge will be sufficient 
to make sure and safe the company 
guaranteeing the indemnity is as vital- 
ly important to the assured as to the 
company. If the rates charged are not 
sufficient to cover the hazard of the 
risks assumed the company so conduct- 
ing its business will soon be retired. If 
the rates charged are higher than the 
hazard of the risks warrant, then the 
property owners are being dealt with 
unjustly, or if one property owner is 
given a lower rate on a risk of equal 
hazard than another property owner, 
an injustice is worked on one to the 
wrongful benefit of the other. The 
question then is vital as to how both 
the property owners and the companies 
can be assured that the rates fixed upon 
the different classes of hazards are 
equitable. How is the public to know, 
and how are the companies to know 
that the business of insurance is not 
based upon a guess or the hazard of the 
gambler's chance? How are they to 
know that this vast business is based 
upon the knowledge gleaned from the 
experience of companies in all the years 
since the first fire company was organ- 
ized ? Surelv in one wav onlv, and that 
is by knowing that the experience of 
the companies has been gathered into 
concrete form and scientifically applied 
in the rating of the various classes of 
hazards. Tt is only through conference 
and interchange of experience among 
companies that this knowledge can be 
secured. But the laws of Towa prohib- 
it this very thing. The laws of Towa 



S. MALONE W. J. McDERMOTT 

GEO. REIFSTECK A. G. PRICE M I. HALLINAN 

S. C. ELLIS GEO. N. K1EFER O. W. SMITH 

This group represents a few of the Century Fire Insurance Company's Boosters 



RATES, RATEMAKING 



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prohibit conferences among companies, 
and as the assured is equally interested 
with the assurer in fair and equitable 
rate-making, it follows that a law that 
prevents the gathering of knowledge 
that will open the way for intelligent 
and scientific rate-making, is contrary 
to public policy and should be repealed. 

The Blanchard Law puts in jeopardy 
the vast interests of a great business. 
It is hostile to the business interests of 
the public, as its prohibitory features 
prevent the intelligent working out of 
the fire insurance business. Any law 
that prevents the widest freedom 
among companies in the matter of 
gathering information that must be 
known to the rate-maker if his work 
is to be done intelligently and scien- 
tifically, is against public policy and 
should be repealed. 

The annual fire waste of the country 
is great. The fire loss of the past for- 
ty-five years amounts to the enormous 
sum of four and one-half billions of 
dollars. To care for the vast interests 
of the property owners, as indicated 
by these figures, there are now oper- 
ating in this country about 300 stock 
fire insurance companies. 

Statistics show that more than 1,000 
fire insurance companies have failed 
during the past fifty years, and that 
nine of the last sixteen years show an 
underwriting loss to the fire compan- 
ies. In view of these facts, ought not 
the best that experience has to offer be 
available to the property owners and to 
the men who have embarked their cap- 
ital in this business, and who are giv- 
ing their best thought, time and energy 
to safe-guard the people's property? 
Is not the property owner as vitally in- 
terested, and as greatly benefited, by 
the gathering and combining for intel- 
ligent use, the experience of companies 
as the companies are ? 

There is no field of human endeavor 
in which competition is keener or more 
intense than in the fire insurance busi- 
ness, and this competition can always 
be relied upon to prevent an over- 
charge of premium. The danger is, in 
the absence of essential knowledge, to 
undercharge rather than to overcharge, 
and thus impair the paying ability of 
the company, as witness the 1,000 of 
jailed companies in the past fifty years. 
ine companies and the property own- 



ers each want to know that the rate 
charge is fixed on the right side of the 
safety line. N.O rate-maker can do this 
who does not know how to classify 
nsks according to their relative hazards, 
and to fix rates accordingly, and this 
knowledge can be acquired only by 
grouping and bringing into workable 
form the experiences of companies. 
Surely no law should be allowed that 
prevents this. The Blanchard Law 
does prevent it and therefore it ought 
to be repealed. 

While the quality of fire insurance 
on the market is as various and differs 
in value as greatly as does the quality 
and value of the merchant's stocks, the 
sale of insurance cannot be conducted 
as the merchant conducts the sale of 
his goods. The merchant knows that 
his stock if sold at a. given price will 
net him a sure profit of so much per 
cent. The element of chance does not 
enter into the transaction at all. The 
manager of the insurance company 
knows so far as the experience of com- 
panies in the past is a guide, that a 
given class of risks, if written at a giv- 
en rate, oua:ht to yield a given profit 
over and above losses and expenses, 
but the loss ratio of the past on any 
given class of risks may be changed in 
a single year, or the loss ratio of any 
state or city in the past may likewise 
be changed in a single year. The state 
of California had a loss ratio of 43^/2 
per cent for twenty-six years, but by 
the fire loss of 1906 the loss ratio of 
California for the past twenty-seven 
years was increased to 123 per cent. 
It is because of this element of chance 
that enters into the fire insurance busi- 
ness, that insurance cannot be sold on 
the basis of a trade profit that looks 
good to the merchant. The business 
of insurance must be made to yield an 
income over and above losses, expense 
and a compensating return on capital 
stock, and add a small addition to its 
surplus, to provide against that day of 
unusual losses that will come, and that 
does come to every company sooner or 
later. Rates then are the bread and 
meat of the insurance business, and to 
attempt to float a company on risks ac- 
cepted at haphazard and without due 
regard to the adequacy of tlic rates 
chraged, is to invite demoralization and 
ultimate failure. 



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As suggested, if competition is what 
is desired in the fire insurance business, 
we surely have it in this business with- 
out the aid of the Blanchard law, for 
in no field of human endeavor is the 
strife for business more intense than it 
is in the business of fire insurance. 
But do property-owners want competi- 
tion in the fire insurance business? I 
contend that they do not ; I contend 
that the interests of the property-own- 
ers and the interests of the companies 
are one; that they are joined and in- 
separable in the matter of rate-mak- 
ing, and that each interest is equally 
desirous of knowing that the rates 
fixed measure as near as may be the 
hazard of the risks. No fair-minded man 
wants to profit- at the expense of his 
neighbor, but this is precisely what one 
man does do at the expense of another 
under the workings of the Iowa anti- 
compact law, known as the Blanchard 
Law. No such discrimination in rates 
was ever known in Iowa as has grown 
up under the blighting influences of 
the Blanchard Law, which law forbids 
even the coming together for confer- 
ence or the interchange of experiences 
of the managers of companies ; which 
forbids the doing of anything that is 
essential to be done if the fire insur- 
ance business of the state is ever again 
to be conducted in an intelligent man- 
ner or to be placed upon safe basis and 
under a system that guarantees exact 
justice and equal riehts to all insurers. 

Insurance Commissioner Thos. B. 
Love of Texas, in his annual report re- 
viewing the insurance situation in that 
state and reviewing the effect of the 
anti-trust law on rates, says : 

"Inequality and injustice must neces- 
sarily result from the operation of this 
system, the great body of those who 
carry small amounts of insurance and 
who are least able to bear an undue 
proportion of the common insurance 
tax being required to carry a portion 
of the larger and wealthier interests. 
It is certain that gross inequalities do 
exist in the fire insurance rates now 
collected on other classes, and ■ wide 
discrimination among those of the 
same class. 

"In my opinion competition in fire 
insurance rates is illogical, opposed to 
sound public policy and undesirable 
from every standpoint. Insurance 



companies produce nothing, but are 
simply convenient facilities for the dis- 
tribution of loss, through which the 
serious losses of ah individual or a lo- 
cality may be absorbed by the general 
public without serious sacrifice on the 
part of any individual. Justice de- 
mands that these losses should be 
equitably distributed among the var- 
ious classes of risks, equally distribut- 
ed, as near as may be, among those of 
the same class. 

"The rate charged for fire insurance 
should in no case be an exorbitant one, 
and safe insurance requires that it must 
not be inadequate. It should be a fair 
and reasonable rate and the same rate 
should be collected by all companies 
and the rate collected by each company 
on all risks of the same class should 
be the same. I recommend the enact- 
ment of legislation prescribing a fair 
and reasonable basis upon which all 
fire insurance rates shall be computed 
and providing an agency to be com- 
posed of insurance experts with full 
power and authority to enforce such 
rates and to prevent discrimination as 
between insurants in the same class 
of risks. 

"Such legislation would provide a 
method of preventing the exaction of 
exorbitant or unreasonable insurance 
rates more effectively than the present 
system of enforced competition and 
would in a large measure eliminate the 
inequalities of the present system, un- 
der which the carriers of large amounts 
of insurance derive special advantages 
at the expense of the general public, 
very similar to those which would be 
derived by large shippers if the rail- 
roads were permitted to give rebates." 

President Roosevelt, in his last mes- 
sage to Congress says: 

"I believe that it is worse than folly 
to attempt to prohibit all combinations 
as is done by the Sherman anti-trust 
law, because such a law can be en- 
forced only imperfectly and unequally, 
and its enforcement w